I'm trying to print four landscape-oriented pages of a document in a grid on one page in landscape-orientation using VBA with:
ActiveDocument.PageSetup.Orientation = wdOrientationLandscape
ActiveDocument.PrintOut PrintZoomRow:=2, PrintZoomColumn:=2
This however is printing the four small landscape-oriented pages in a grid on a portrait-oriented page, which leaves them too small and with too much free space between them vertically.
I looked at the documentation for PrintOut, but didn't find anything concerning orientation.
I tried reversing the order of the PrintZooms.
I also tried manually configuring the width and height of the printed paper with PrintZoomPaperWidth and -Height, which lead to the small pages being cut off and the printing one still in portrait mode.
This just doesn't seem to be possible in the current version of Office (2019), neither with code nor the UI.
As a workaround, one could take screenshots, change the orientation to portrait and paste them in rotated 90° or use rotated textboxes in Word.
Alternatively and probably much easier, create a PDF and use a PDF reader capable of printing this way, e.g. Adobe Reader.
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I've been working on a node project with puppeteer.js for the last few months, but I have just started to use transparency in PDF files and have come across a real head scratcher...
What am I trying to achieve?
3 horizontally adjoined, semi transparent divs, rendered as part of a pdf via puppeteer.
What's the problem?
In html they display as expected. But in PDF a faint line appears between elements which I believe is to do with "stitching". I'm aware that this wont show in print, but I want to get rid of on screen. This is a mock up of some simple content which shows the behaviour I'm experiencing:
What have I tried?
Experimenting with Puppeteer params (antialiasing, flattening, color
flags like -webkit-print-color-adjust) - [Result: no change]
SVG elements with transparent background. [Result: lines still
appear]
A single div using a linear gradient with 3 block colors. [Result: Works when viewed in Acrobat, but has the weird effect in chrome where elements shift slightly to the right (pictured: top row - single div with linear gradient. Bottom row - black boxes used here as a guide for assessing alignment)].
SVG elements using a linear gradient. [Result: Same as above]
Flattening the pdf [Result: This does solve the problem, but degrades
the quality of the rest of the image, therefore not suitable]
I'm finding it difficult to find a solution as I'm not really sure where the behaviour is emanating from (the PDF, puppeteer, browser?). If anybody has any ideas, I'd be very grateful!
Thanks
A PDF with lecture slides contains huge whitespaces (ca. 50% of actual slide dimensions on each border). How can I get rid of those in a printout?
NOTE: Printer settings are not useful. Zooming is not possible, as this immediately cuts into one side of the slides and toggling automatic centering does not solve this issue either. Need document level solution!
Is there a function for this in common word processing programs? I have imported the PDF into LibreOffice Draw. The slides are imported as images, but I do not want to rescale 60 images on 30 pages by hand:
Source: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/courses/418/Lectures/lecture.2010f.02.pdf
I have about 400 pdfs with a lot of dead space between the text and the page border.
Usually I'm using govert's pdf cropper to crop all the whitespace, but this time the pdf background color is (darn!) yellow,
and no software which I know (and I've searched for quite a while) can crop non-whitespace
(well, except maybe pdfcrop.pl -a Pearl library which supposedly can remove black spaces).
Anybody knows of a software that can perform such task?
The ideal app, I guess, would have the option to receive specific color to remove,
like rgb(192,192,192).
Thanks in advance.
The reason this is so difficult is that PDF has no concept of paper color or background color. So what you're seeing is not a different background color, but an object (typically a rectangle) painted in that yellow background color.
Most cropping tools simply calculate the bounding box of all objects on the page and then crop away everything outside that bounding box. Of course that doesn't work for your file because the bounding box will include the background rectangle object.
There are potentially a number of directions you could take this:
1) If all pages need to be cropped by the same amount, you could attempt to do cropping that way (simply passing a rectangle to the cropping tool to do the actual cropping).
2) There are tools (callas pdfToolbox - watch it, I'm associated with this tool, Enfocus PitStop...) that allow you to remove objects from a document and this could be done by specifying your yellow color. This would allow you to modify the PDF file by removing the background object and then perform the cropping you want to perform.
I am trying to convert a pdf into tif using ghost script. Is it possible to remove the background (grey color) of a text block (back font color) in a pdf using ghost script? I would like to replace the grey background to white.
Appreciate your help!!
I don't think you'll get a generic solution to your problem because there are many different ways such a background may be coded in your PDF and there is no sure way to distinguish such a background from a rectangular form of some vector image.
PDF essentially offers a set of tools for positioning glyphs and vector graphics in some rectangle (page) to display and some additional tools to add some interactivity (e.g. forms). Thus, a colored background in a PDF generally is created by drawing a line along the edge of the area of the background, fill this form with the desired color, and position glyphs and graphics (text and images) atop it. There are other operators, too, which can be used, though, and many variants of their use, and generally the form created is not marked as background.
In the answer Dingo refers to in his comment a rectangle covering the whole page, actually even a bit more (in case of a fairly common choice of a media box), is drawn (m: move to a corner; 4*l: draw the 4 edge lines; h: close the path; f fill the form).
Thus, please make the PDF in question available for inspection, maybe there is some specific solution for your file.
I want show per page pdf in portait mode and display two pages when rotate to landscape mode on ipad . I had search on internet and can't find any solution. I thought two possible way.
1.Using webview but I don't know how to display two page in one webview in a webview.
2.Using CGPDF API read from two page and merge to one pdf file. But I think this may be very slow and not sure if this could do it .
or any other way could solve this problem? Thanks!!
I don't think you will have much success with using a UIWebView there. There's however nothing stopping you from putting two CATiledLayers into a UIView and display them next to each other. In fact, that's exactly what I did in my iOS PDF parsing framework.
Just set the contentView as the containerView, that includes both tiled layers, and they work perfectly together. Keep an eye on your memory though, I wouldn't allow them both rendering pdf at the same time, that most likely crashes your app due to low memory. (Drawing a PDF is really resource intensive)