Questions tagged [pdf]
Documents in the Portable Document Format, created by Adobe Systems, and readable with Adobe Reader, Apple Preview, and other software programs
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macOS Automator action "Compress Images in PDF" won't work
macOS 26.2
In the past, I created an Automator quick action with just two "bricks":
The workflow receives PDF files from any application (this is in the default brick for quick actions)
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Can Preview impose pages for booklet printing?
I am trying to print a booklet from a single-page PDF and impose it in Preview.
Since I am printing a 6-up booklet, the page order should be:
12-1
2-11
3-10
4-9
5-8
6-7
This is what I am getting:
Did ...
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iPad Readdle Documents corrupts PDF metadata after annotation, breaking Spotlight indexing on macOS
After annotating a PDF on iPad (iPadOS 18.7.1) using "Readdle Documents" and syncing it with my MacBook Pro, some PDF metadata is corrupted, causing "Spotlight" indexing (finding ...
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Restore Quick Look "Scroll-to-Zoom" for PDFs on macOS Tahoe
Background:
I have recently migrated from OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) to the latest version of macOS Tahoe (26.1).
For the past 10 years, I have frequently used a Quick Look feature on El Capitan that ...
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Improving on Live Text on macOS [duplicate]
I know there are older questions on OCR, but many of them have been obsoleted by recent versions of macOS.
I have a PDF file which is basically built from images of printed text. I want to convert ...
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For one PDF file, command-F opens an unusual "Find" window
I haven't seen anything like this before. I downloaded this paywalled article from a university library WiFi (that I don't often use).
Later, opened the article in Preview, and when I tried to search ...
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Preview.app: have it read file again when filesystem mtime changes?
Is there a way to force Preview.app to automatically update the window when the mtime on the file changes? Maybe some AppleScript?
I'm finding I need to click focus Preview.app window in order for an ...
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Making multiple-page PDFs out of images with different sizes
I used to use OSX Preview when making PDFs. One or two OS versions ago, I used to be able to just load multiple images, highlight them all, print to PDF, and the final image would be a multiple-page ...
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Open pdfs in Preview instead of Adobe Reader
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macOS Ventura. I'm using Preview as standard application to open pdf files, and have Adobe Reader installed for occasional use.
Problem
For the past week, whenever I double-click on a pdf file, ...
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What does "Resolution" mean in the Finder displayed metadata for PDFs?
I know less about the nuances of the pdf file format than I might like, but I'm not completely ignorant either. "Resolution" might mean something when dealing with raster images (jpg, png, ...
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Mac preview syncing certain fields when filling out pdf
Im trying to fill out a PDF form in preview. There are several dates I need to put in, but for some reason Apple decides to sync all the date boxes.
Im on Mac os Sequoia
I can't type in a single text ...
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How can I print the left and right halves of joined PDF pages separately?
I'm trying to print a PDF of board game rules. In the PDF, they've joined up the facing pages into single double-width pages. So in bad ASCII art, you get:
PDF Rulebook
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1 | 1 |...
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Viewing pixel height and width with the mouse cursor in a PDF
On a MacBook, is it possible to see where my mouse cursor is located in a PDF and find out the pixel height and width that it is located?
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How to call a preinstalled Automator action from the command line
OSX comes with a bunch of nice utilities in /System/Library/Automator. I'd like to use the command line to invoke them.
For example, I'd like to split each page of a PDF into individual pdfs. The ...
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Preview App Zoom to Fit {⌘9} Then Page right {⌘→} to Scroll to Next Page in PDF
When reading PDF documents in Preview, I frequently find it convenient to resize the PDF to the width of the Preview window using {⌘9}, and then move to the next page using the right arrow key. ...