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Thanks - I was afraid it would be impossible to change the page alignment. I probably will not make all the pages the same size (9"x11"). Some people may want to print the document, minus the 9"x11" pages, as 8-1/2"x11" without too much fuss. - David

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I'm trying to offset a few whole page within a 70 page document. Most pages are 8-1/2" x 11. A few pages are 9"x11". I'm trying to line up the left edge of ALL the pages. I looked at " Documents > More for Pages > Resize Pages ", but it didn't do what I thought it would do. ...

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Hi Stefan, The document is a one page order form. A blank form would be opened and filled out (including the current date and time). Form would be saved as a pdf The form might be re-opened again to enter more data and re-saved with the same file name. E-mailed as a pdf to another person. That other...

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I read another post regarding how to automatically set a Date field to Today's date. The reply was to perform some type of initialization of the form that would set the values for some fields automatically. How do I initialize the form to fill a date field as mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM ? I thought it would ha...

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Stefan, I also have a date field (m/d/yy HH:MM) that needs the current date and time, but I do not want the User to change the value. How do I initialize the form to fill a date field? I thought it would have been "File>>Document Properties...", but I don't see an "initialize" op...

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Hi Paul,

My mistake. What I thought were pdfs were actually HTML pages. The "documents" were on a private internet server where I work (a government agency).

David

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I hope there's a way. When other people send me a pdf (not created by PDF-XChange) or a pdf I have downloaded from the internet, the hyperlinks are usually underscored but have always been a different color from other text on the page. Once the hyperlink is clicked, or I have visited the hyperlinked...

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I've created pdfs with PDF-XChange in the past and I usually add links (pages in the pdf and external URLs based on text in the pdf). I never figured how to set the color or underline the links. I've always had to alter the text (color and underscore) in another program before creating a pdf. Is the...

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Thanks Ivan.

By the way, for now, I crafted a webpage with a clickable phone link. I added a link to that webpage in my pdf.

DWC121

I know how to add Web Links, but using one of the Add options ("Run a Javascript", "Go to a Page in the Document", etc), can I use one of those options to add a link to allow someone a "click to call" option if they are reading the pdf on a phone enabled device? In html...

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Willy - Thank you! I figured it out and moved the contents away from all the edges. Now... How do I do this for ALL the pages in the document? This document has 10 pages, but another document I need to adjust has 45 pages. It seems as if the "Transform" option only works on one page at a t...

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I have several pdf's I'd like to adjust. Everything on the page is flush with the left edge. Is there an easy way to shift everything on a page to the right, say for example, by 1/4"? Actually, what I want to do is add a 1/4" margin on all sides of everything on the page AND keep the pdf d...

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Thanks Daniel! What you mentioned is doable for me. When I have a moment, I'll try to find the help pages about generating multiple copies of a pdf that would each have data from a row in a spreadsheet. If I have the pdf retrieve the email address (Name, phone number, etc) from the spreadsheet, then...

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Greetings, A few months ago I stumbled across the help pages about filling in form fields with data from a spreadsheet. If my spreadsheet has 20 rows of data, I think it means 20 separate pdf's would be created. I also want to automatically send those pdf's via email. Now I can not find the help pag...

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Thanks Stefan. Yes, I was working in a form field. I often copy form field data from one pdf to another. After reading your post, I copied the data, then clicked outside the form field and <Ctrl>+Tab moved to the Next Open Document. Since I copy form field data between several pdf's, the cursor will...

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I've used <Ctrl>+Tab to navigate to my next Open Document in PDF-XChange but it has not worked in recent months. Instead, that shortcut now inserts blank spaces in form fields. In "Help>Customize Toolbars>Commands" , the shortcut <Ctrl>+F6 is assigned to go to the next document. I added <C...

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Thanks Stefan, For now, maybe I'll just keep my pdf as simple as possible. One of my computer trade journals I receive appears as a flip book. I have not noticed but I bet the file resides on the sender's server. I did an internet search and found a few companies can convert a pdf into a flip-book. ...

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Is there an option to make a pdf into a flip book? I see there is a transition option that is similar to a flip-book, but I can only make the pages go forward; not backward. If I add transition to a pdf and e-mail the file to someone (or put it on a USB), will the pdf open full screen in the user's ...

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Thanks Dimitar. I was afraid what I was looking for would be unavailable except by hiring a programmer.

Since I often share pdf's that I make with PCF-XChange, some of the other security permissions will help me in the future.

David

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Thanks Paul. There are a lot of Document permissions, but one permission I need appears to be missing (unless I overlooked it). Maybe I'm asking for too much, but if the FILE is copied in Windows Explorer after a predetermined number of times, I want each page to appear as a blank page. This would r...

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Dimitar, Thanks for the reply. After I posted, I looked through the help section (should have done that first) and found some information. I use the classic toolbar so I had to hunt for the "Security" section. Am I correct in assuming that if I change the "Document Security Settings&q...

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Is there an option to copy-protect a pdf created with PDF-XChange? I saw a product elsewhere, that when added to a pdf, if the pdf is copied on a different PC or if a screen shot is taken, the result is a blank page. No password is needed to open the original pdf. I'm hoping PDF-XChange has somethin...

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Daniel, Thank you for your reply. You stated... "Note that the OCR engine operates best with black on white text, so any colored or less dark shades of grey will cause it to have more difficulties." That is why I cleaned up the text in one of the jpg's. Most of the text was darker and cris...

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Sigh... Several months ago I had a jpg on my PC with text that was fuzzy. Today I opened it in PDF-XChange and saved it as a pdf. I realized I had not applied OCR so I re-opened the pdf and applied OCR. Naturally, since the text was not clear, the OCR results were terrible. The jpg and the pdf are a...

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Stefan,

I tried as you suggested, and yes, the newly saved V8 file was smaller than the previous V8 file. THANK YOU

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When I have a few minutes I'll experiment with the other options in the "File -> Save as Optimized..." screen.

David

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I know this topic has been dealt with before. There are many places where a file size can be manipulated AND it depends on what the user needs, such as OCR, comments included, etc. Sometimes it is painful to search through all the postings (Search = "file size") but I find solutions not qu...

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After I run OCR, the results ( including words in form fields ) would appear in the Content pane, so I figured it was "Content" data. I thought " Comments " were something entirely different so that is why I told OCR to ignore "Comments". I learned something today. :D T...

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HTH (and Daniel), Thanks for the reply. I thought "Ignore comments on page" meant only data in the comment property. Does "Ignore comments on page" mean both comment and content properties? IFilter... something must have changed. It worked in version 7 for data in form fields. Be...

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Daniel, Thank you for the quick response. Unfortunately I still have the problem. I used the instructions in the link (set to "none", applied, then re-established the options, applied). I downloaded build 331 of the editor. I made a copy of the original pdf and opened it with PDF X-Change ...

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Greetings, I read a posting that there were problems with OCR in Version 8.0 . Perhaps my problem is the same. Text can be found when the pdf is open. When I search for the text in Windows Explorer, the pdf file is not found. My indexing is turned on. I can find files for pdf's created in previous v...

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Greetings, I have a 140 page pdf that was created from jpg images. The images are 150 dpi (1218 pixels wide by 1650 pixels tall). The images are of a school yearbook. The resulting pdf is 539,579 KB. The pdf will be available for viewing on our Alumni website. Some classmates may want to print the p...

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Will,

I found it by using Ctrl+D (Document Properties) and deleted it. I don't know how the Javascript got included in this document, but I have now turned it off in my PDF-XChange preferences with Ctrl+K.

Thanks - David

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Daniel,

See attached. I looked at other pdf files and the Javascript settings are identical. As far as I know, only THIS pdf opens the print dialog box when the pdf is opened.

Later at work today I'll open the pdf with my portable version of PDF-XChange to see if the same thing happens.

David

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When I open a pdf, the file opens and the print screen within PDF-XChange immediately appears. I thought maybe my mouse was to blame but I doubt it. Is there a place to change this behavior?

I'm using Version 7.0 (Build 328.1)

Thanks - David

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Daniel, I tried the new "Enhanced Scanned Pages" function and the results are much better. The original image is on the light side (attached as PDF TEST.jpg). Note that when I create a pdf I import a bmp file; not a jpg file. The "Enhanced Scanned Pages" function has several opti...

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Greetings - I'm using two versions of PDF-XChange Editor. The one on my desktop is V7.0 build 326.0 . My portable copy is V6.0 build 317.1 . My portable copy is older but the OCR functionality is way more accurate. An example of both are attached. Both pdfs were created from the same bmp file. I'm a...

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Greetings, I was ready to purchase an upgrade for my PDF-XChange Editor to the Pro edition using my VISA credit card. I live in the US and my VISA has a block on all foreign transactions, including Canada. Does anyone know if payments to the Tracker-software company go through the UK or the Canadian...

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Thanks again Will - I might download the SDK when I get a few minutes. Like you and your company, I don't have much free time though. I'm an Oracle (database) application programmer who designs input forms for our State Transportation Engineers. Have been doing it with various programs for close to ...

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Will, Thanks for the reply. I didn't think it could be done but I thought I'd ask anyway. There are ways to populate fields within an e-mail (so each recipient gets a personalized e-mail ), but getting my e-mail client to do that to an attachment would be harder. I didn't know if pdf's had a way of ...

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When I said " Is it possible to add field names to the attached pdf ", I did not mean attached to this post. I meant attached to the e-mail we send to our members. If it will help, I have now attached the pdf to this post using the "attachments" tab. The fields I would like to ad...

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I create newsletters for our non-profit. We print some of the newsletters and send them through the postal mail. About 40 newsletters are sent via e-mail as a pdf attachment. The front page of the pdf has a blank area where our Treasurer sticks on an address label and a stamp. The label include a da...

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Stefan, I have no idea how the dimensions got changed, but I see they were. When I applied OCR to the NEW document, the old typewritten information in the middle of the document (in the box under the phrase Catalog No and Description) did not get OCR'd . I tried your suggestion of adding my text usi...

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Greetings. I rely on OCR working fairly well. Within the past year something changed and OCR accuracy seems to have gone down hill. I always use the "Medium" accuracy. Last year I created a pdf from a bmp file and applied OCR. The results were very accurate. Today I added text to the same ...

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Can someone tell me what the "Path" is used for in the Content Pane? I can see the Properties Pane for Path entries. For clickable boxes (to put an "X" in a box on a form), there are 2 Path entries. The Property Pane for the first Path shows Fill Color "255, 255, 255" a...

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Maybe instead of just "Text:" or "Path:" in the Content Pane, include a time stamp such as "Text-20171012185343:" (which means yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss). Just a quick thought off the top of my head. Perhaps later incorporate something to delete content entries based on the t...

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Timur, I think that is what Stefan was suggesting. I've been doing that, although if I find a mistake with text I've entered into fields I have to start all over. Sometimes that means to re-do several pdf's. The only way around it is to save an un-OCR'd pdf after I fill in the fields. For me that me...

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Stefan, In other words, the Content pane shows more than just the results of OCR; it shows all the content of the document whether it be text or graphics. (Re-reading your reply, the following is probably not possible, but I'll ask again...) Is there a way to remove the OCR metadata without using th...

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Greetings, I use OCR for my pdf's so I can search using Windows Explorer. When I open the Content Pane after applying OCR, the text is listed. Some it also say "path". The "path" is usually graphics or box borders in the pdf. Since graphics and box borders can not be searched for...

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Yes indeed. Both are very nice and handy scripts to have. Both scripts worked like a charm

For our metric friends, for the script that shows results in points, divide points by 2.83465. I think that is the correct value. Round the 2.83465 if you want.

THANK YOU LEV !!

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Thanks Willy. Yes it is on, but when a document has a couple hundred pages, it is time consuming to check each page. I was hoping there was a way to display a pane that shows a summary of all the pages. Maybe under "View>>Other panes". A side pane with something like: Page 1 - 8.500"x...

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