I am trying to batch convert a bunch of MS Word documents via Pages on my Mac. I have an Applescript that I believe will work, but I am getting hung up on a dialog box, and I am trying to see if someone could proofread the script for me.
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posted by 4ster
on Dec 18, 2012 -
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I'm trying to figure out if a iPad is what I'm looking for to help me reduce my physical books, particularly cookbooks and printed (from the internet) recipes. I want to know first whether iPad is the way to go for my specific needs (details within) and then, if an iPad is what I want, which generation iPad & apps would help me do what I want. Or maybe there is a better solution?
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posted by pupstocks
on Jun 9, 2012 -
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Please help me thwart the evil Adobe empire so that I can read the Valve Handbook for New Employees (and other .pdf files) on my Macbook again!
Recently, Adobe Reader told me an updated version was available. Obviously delusional, I went ahead and updated my perfectly-working 9.4 to the new version 10, and now I can no longer view pdf documents in Chrome (18.0.1025.163), my browser of choice. What now?
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posted by misha
on Apr 23, 2012 -
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PDFs on Firefox for Mac: No matter what hacks I try, it seems that I cannot get the
PDF Plugin for Firefox on Mac OS X to work with either Firefox 9 or Firefox 10 beta. I feel like I must be doing something wrong because evidently other folks have gotten it to work. Would be grateful if anyone could walk me through the best way to get this extension working again.
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posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell
on Jan 16, 2012 -
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My (very) small office just got a new whiz-bang scanner that can scan stacks of paper to image-only PDFs. Ideally, I'd like to use this to do away with paper filing, but this is harder (for me) than it sounds.
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posted by 4ster
on Oct 9, 2011 -
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Mac OSX 10.5.8 form PDF printing: Can anyone tell me why it might be that sites which generate a unique PDF for download will malfunction with Firefox but not with Safari or Chrome? A typical example is
Purolator.ca: clicking on the javascript link to print a waybill returns a cgi file but no pdf.
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posted by HLD
on Apr 7, 2011 -
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I've got a PDF (a magazine). I'm trying export some pages from this PDF (my article), as a separate PDF. I'm on a Mac (10.6.7). This seems like it should be easy, but I can't print my selected pages to PDF (it's grayed out in the "Save to PDF" drop-down), nor can I find any options to save-selected-pages-as or export-to. My searches have only turned up now-obsolete, non-functioning programs like PDFlab and PDFsam. What am I missing? Should I just print out the pages and scan them back in?
posted by finnb
on Mar 24, 2011 -
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I use Chrome for Mac. Is there any way to open PDFs inline, avoiding the clunky save-to-disk rigmarole?
posted by dontjumplarry
on Sep 18, 2010 -
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Perhaps this is just a fantasy, but is there any application or online tool that could search through the references of an article I have saved as a PDF, in order to check whether I have those cited articles in my larger PDF library? It would be perfect if it would highlight, link, or somehow display cross-referenced relationships between all my articles. I am already familiar with many referencing/PDF organization software such as
Papers (Mekentosj),
Sente, and
Devonthink. I suppose what I have in mind is a similar tool, but with the additional power of something like ISI Indexes. I have a fairly large library (about 300 references that I'm actively using, and more than 2000 total) and I'm just trying to get some "big-picture" grasp of how all these sources relate to one another.
posted by samac
on Jun 20, 2010 -
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Any recommendations for scanning / PDF management software for my Mac that is cheap or, better yet, free?
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posted by synecdoche
on Mar 21, 2010 -
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Please recommend OS X software which can generate indexes from PDF files. Freeware is best, but shareware is also fine.
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posted by NucleophilicAttack
on Sep 13, 2009 -
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MacFilter: Anyone know of a free way to add markups and comments to PDF files in OS X?
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posted by el_lupino
on Aug 9, 2009 -
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How do I set up my printer prefs / page settings to save an A0 size Powerpoint slide as a PDF?
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posted by roofus
on Jun 11, 2009 -
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Is there Mac-based software available that will search my entire hard drive or designated folders for image-only PDF files (have not been OCR'ed) and then automatically run OCR (using Acrobat Pro or whatever) and override the original file with a searchable version?
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posted by randex8
on Dec 16, 2008 -
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I saved a PowerPoint presentation as PDF, but the PDF version has some extra exclamation points (!) all over the place and two entire text boxes missing. Can anyone help me fix that?
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posted by carofowler
on Dec 2, 2008 -
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I'm having trouble viewing pdfs using Preview on my Mac (OS 10.4.11). Parts of the document don't show up. I usually have to close the file and reopen it several times before the entire document renders properly. Has anyone else had this problem, and were you able to fix it? And, if so, how?
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posted by bluefly
on Oct 9, 2008 -
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Mac users who write LaTeX documents in Emacs (with or without AucTeX), please tell me about your workflow.
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posted by gleuschk
on Oct 4, 2008 -
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Yippee - Firefox 3.0 has landed. Will this solve the most glaring problem with Firefox 2.x - unlike native Mac app Safari, Firefox can't load pdf's inline.
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posted by ericbop
on Jun 17, 2008 -
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What's a good, idiot-proof way for my mom to scan and manage her old recipes on her iMac?
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posted by SansPoint
on Jan 20, 2008 -
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.chm to PDF conversion, Mac OS X. There seems to be no easy way to do it. Does anyone have an effective and trustworthy workflow they can recommend? (more inside)
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posted by Señor Pantalones
on Sep 23, 2007 -
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Is there a way to set up Preview and the preview in TexShop to display the pdf in continuous mode rather than one-single-page-at-a-time mode? I know you can do this for each document individually through the menus (or by right-clicking), but is there some hidden preference (in the plist?) that I can change to coerce Preview and TexShop to display in continuous mode by default?
posted by Friday
on Jun 4, 2007 -
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I really love the baked-in "Save to PDF" function that OS 10 has. I love it so much, that I often have multiple things that I want to save as PDF. It is a little inconvenient/inefficient to go through five or six pages, hit cmd-p, click "PDF", select "Save as PDF", hit return, hit return again, for each file. It would be much easier if I could punch in one key combo and have the "Save" dialog box come up, with "PDF" in the format. Please help.
Anyone know a way to make this happen?
posted by grieserm
on Dec 15, 2006 -
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Trying to view a PDF in Firefox 2.0 on an Intel iMac is even more of a pain in the butt that it was in Fx 1.5.0.7. What am I doing wrong?
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posted by DakotaPaul
on Nov 1, 2006 -
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How can I make a .pdf of a .doc file that maintains the copious hyperlinks in the original MS Word doc on Mac OS 10.4?
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posted by hwickline
on Sep 28, 2006 -
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Some PDFs in Preview (OS X) have quite a fuzzy text even at high zoom, and I can't select the text (which is the main problem). Is there some remedy for this?
posted by raheel
on Jun 30, 2006 -
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When I make a PDF from any application in OS X (10.3.x), they come out pixelated. Much like the steering well in the pirate's pants, it's driving me nuts.
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posted by blueshammer
on Jun 20, 2006 -
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I want to manage the huge list of pdf based papers that I read for my PhD in CS: keep them organized by categories, put long notes in them, etc.
Anything for OS X?
posted by raheel
on Jun 15, 2006 -
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Why does Word 2004 (OS X 10.4.3) freak out when printing a PDF of a document with the "different odd and even pages" pagination setting? How can I convince it that everything is OK?
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posted by themadjuggler
on Apr 12, 2006 -
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Acrobat Filter. In Mac OS 9.2, I regularly create a large number of PDFs from Word files using Distiller 5.0. The problem is, I do this for 30 large files every 10 days, and must
manually first create .ps files, and then distill them. The process takes more than 1 hour, during which I must open Each Word file to .ps "print" it. Short of buying a new copy of Acrobat for $300 and/or an OS X computer, is there any way to automate this process?
posted by ParisParamus
on Sep 17, 2004 -
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OpenOffice question. Is there an easy way to convert documents to PDF such that the hyperlinks still work? I'm on OS X.
posted by inksyndicate
on Aug 24, 2004 -
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What's the easiest way to implement a .PDF file that can be edited by multiple users (Mac and Windows)? (more inside)
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posted by sharksandwich
on Aug 24, 2004 -
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