I used a Microsoft Word template to make a few documents, and I then converted those documents into PDFs by Saving as PDF. I'm displaying the PDFs in a web page but all the PDFs have the same title on the web page. I cannot find anywhere where there is a "title" for a Word document and I'm nearly at my wits end.
I figured it out. I was looking at Word instead of the PDF itself. I can change the title funder File > Properties in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
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I want to export a word document to a pdf document with working links.
All links such as cross-reference to another section work in the pdf document. Only the citation links which point to the bibliography at the end of the document get lost during the export.
I use the citavi add-on in word to create the citation links and the bibliography.
I already tried saving the word document as pdf and exporting it.
Is there a way to preserve those citation links?
Thank you!
I found a solution. The not working links are related to the Citavi Add-in.
First you have to activate "Link in-text citations to references in the bibliography" under "Options" in the Citavi Add-in Tab in Word.
Then under "Convert" you can click "Save a copy as static text (with hyperlinks)".
After this just save the document as pdf and the links are adopted in the pdf document.
Today i tried to search a Arabic word in a PDF file that contained Arabic content.
All PDF reader soft wares cannot search any Arabic word in this PDF file.
So I dragged PDF file into Firefox browser and selected a area that contained some words by inspect elements and saw this:
hw ½oiC instead of آخرین سخن
What is type of the encoding used in this PDF file?
how can i encode this to normal text?
It's difficult to comment on the file you are looking at without seeing it but a good starting point is to try Acrobat and by either copying the text and pasting it into a text editor or doing a search for the text content will reveal if it can be extracted correctly or not.
If it can't be extracted properly then there's a good chance the font is lacking a ToUnicode entry (see Section 9.10.1 of the ISO PDF 32000-1:2008 specification for more information).
I'm scaning several documents and save as PDF/a in directory. Is it possible and how (which software) search string inside documents.
For example in one of documents I have string stackoverflow
After type stackoverflow I want focus on this documents.
Try this;
Convert pdf in searchable pdf eg. (PDF Converter Professional 8)
Put all document in one folder
Open foxit reader in right corner click on small directory icon and set search location and enter your string.
Enjoy!
I am trying to print a section of an existing pdf to a new pdf. The original is searchable and selectable but the new pdf cannot do either. I am using "adobe acrobat reader DC" and print via "Microsoft Print to PDF". Unsure if there is any other relevant information.
After searching for a period of time I could not find an answer that allows for direct PDF to PDF print.
I did find a workaround however.
I downloaded a free software called PrimoPDF. Once installed, PrimoPDF becomes a printer option within Adobe acrobat reader. I then selected my desired pages and printed to PrimoPDf instead of Microsoft Print to PDF. This Generated a .ps file. I then imported the .ps file into PrimoPDF application and was able to generate a .pdf from that. The newly generated pdf was searchable and selectable and exactly what I needed.
Hopefully someone else finds this useful in the future.
Generally refrying (printing to PostScript then converting back to PDF) is a bad idea. The reason that Microsoft Print to PDF created a file that wasn't searchable is because when Adobe Reader detects that the printer it is targeting isn't capable of rendering the PDF correctly because of any number of reasons, like it doesn't have the right fonts for example, it will render the PDF itself and send an image to the printer. A simpler PDF probably would have worked just fine.
You are much better off getting a tool that will simply allow you to extract the pages you need to a new file rather than printing.
I'm converting WORD docs to PDF programmatically using vb.net and ghostscript. This word doc I’m having problems with has hyperlinks to external URLs and also hyperlinks to bookmarks within the document. When the doc is converted to PDF the external URLs work but the links to the bookmarks do not.
I have searched for a solution to get these bookmarks to work on the output PDF but haven’t had any luck. Hopefully someone has done this and can share the solution.
Ghostscript only handles PDF or PostScript as an input, there are sibling products to handle XPS and PCL as well but none of them handle Word .doc files. So you must be converting the Word file into something else.
I'll hazard a guess that you are using the Windows PostScript printer driver to convert to PostScript and passing that to GS (possibly via the RedMon Port Monitor) to convert into PDF.
Now PostScript doesn't support hyperlinks, bookmarks, or any of the other paraphernalia of a viewing application, since its intended as a print language. To overcome this Adobe introduced an extension, the pdfmark operator, which can be used to create this kind of information. NOTE this is an extension which is only supported for conversion to PDF.
So, in order to get these inserted, you need to create pdfmarks in the PostScript. If you are printing from Word, this means that you have to insert PostScript into the file when printing. There is a 'pass through' mechanism for this purpose.
So what you need to do is create the appropriate Visual Basic script in Word which inserts the relevant pdfmarks when the document is printed. This is how the Adobe plug-in for Word (which used to be called PDFMaker a long time ago) works.
Have a look at this tool.
It does maintain bookmarks and hyperlinks.
http://www.transcom.de/transcom/en/2004_pdf-t-maker.htm