When I try to print certain web pages to PDF in Firefox, chunks of text go missing. Why? [more inside]
posted by game warden to the events rhino on Nov 4, 2009 - 7 answers

Graphic designers: what's the mysterious missing link between a home-made PDF and a universally-printable ad image? [more inside]
posted by BostonTerrier on Jun 27, 2009 - 18 answers

How do you make journal article PDFs searchable by keywords, controlled vocabulary subject headings, as well as authors and titles? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on May 18, 2009 - 4 answers

It seems that I have completely run out of black ink, but I have a new color cartridge in my HP All-in-one printer (F2120). I want to print out pdfs of crossword puzzles that I've downloaded from the internet. The pdfs only utilize black ink. I want to print them out in a color (red, green, blue.. I don't care), so that the puzzle and clues all appear in the same (non-black) color. I'm using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional for Win2k. Is there any easy way to do this? Is it even possible? Have I provided enough info?
posted by Mael Oui on Oct 4, 2008 - 11 answers

I am compiling a dvd with 40 volumes of a journal (in PDF format) on it for distribution to members of my state archaeological association. I have a master introduction with table of contents and hyperlinks to the individual PDF files. I am having trouble making the links work. What's the best way to do this? [more inside]
posted by Diachronic on Sep 6, 2008 - 6 answers

Scientists: What's the best and simplest way to organize, annotate, and take notes from scientific journal articles on a PC? I'm starting a new project and ready for a new system that doesn't require four programs or being unable to find something when I can't remember the title or author. How do you organize your references, pdfs, and notes? [more inside]
posted by JustWandering on Jan 18, 2008 - 18 answers

Why is my printer spooling so slowly? Recently ( I dont know how recently) I've noticed that instead of printing page after page, there is a pause of a few seconds between each page of the pdf's i'm printing off. it takes forever, and i'd like to fix it. help! [more inside]
posted by gilsonal on Oct 22, 2006 - 9 answers

How should I format pdfs for best viewing in OS X's screen saver slide show? [more inside]
posted by valkane on Mar 28, 2006 - 4 answers

Acrobat Distiller/PDF Panic (Mac Classic 9.2) I can take Word files, and create .PS files, and then distill them into PDFs, but when I try to do it all in one step, ERROR 5751. Since the Web is of no help, is there someone here who can help?
posted by ParisParamus on Feb 10, 2005 - 21 answers

Document design people!
Some months ago, I completed the first fairly rough draft of a (unofficial) gigantic manual for a half-life mod called Natural Selection. My manual sucks! I need help! (+) [more inside]
posted by kavasa on Dec 10, 2004 - 13 answers

Book scanning. I don't like carrying around several pounds of college textbooks with me when I have a perfectly good laptop. I want to create really nice scans of my books, preferably in PDF so I can search through them and bookmark them. I don't want to rip open the bindings. Google looks like they have the ability to make nice scans. There are countless articles on robotic book scanning, and places to send in your books for PDF conversion. I need to be able to do this at home. Buying a scanner and using that is too laborious (scan, preview, adjust, save, flip page, start over, convert to PDF). [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Dec 9, 2004 - 13 answers

PDF question. I have a directory full of jpgs, each is a scanned page of a book and each is numbered sequentially (001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg ...). I want to convert it to a single document. I don't want to open the first image and then import and append each successive page. Is there a script to do this? I have both acrobat and ghostscript. Any pdf gurus here?
posted by Grod on Jul 25, 2004 - 12 answers

How can I convert PDF files into PPT on XP? Freeware is always appreciated.
posted by signal on Mar 30, 2004 - 2 answers