Isthere a way to export my artwork as PDF so that it has a transparent background? Something like exporting objects only... whenever I try to save my .ai as pdf, it always comes with a full white background. If I try to save as eps, I get a chunky white background (where it has white rectangles behind the artwork only where the artwork exists, so there are transparent chunks).
Since you said that "it always comes with a full white background", I'm thinking that if you viewed the .pdf in Acrobat or actually almost any application that takes in PDF, it will have a white background for convenience. Imagine reading text documents with a transparency grid on.
Acrobat and many other applications have what is in Adobe applications called a "transparency grid", which helps you view the document without the default background. It's not always called that in every application. In Acrobat: settings (Cmd+K) > Page display > Transparency grid. Photoshop and Illustrator also have a transparency grid.
When printing multiple PDF's to separate files, using Revit MEP 2013/2014, some of the PDF's will be duplicated and others do not print at all. When you look at the list of PDF's they are all named correctly but upon opening you realize some are just duplicates of others in the list.
Side note, we have used BlueBeam and PDFill with similar results, it does not happen when printing all PDF's to a combined set, and happens less frequently after synchronizing, relinquishing and rebooting the program, though it still happens occasionally then too. It also seems to be worsened with the 2014 version of Revit.
The problem may not be with Revit. I typically use CutePDF and upon printing a set of Sheets to PDF, the user is prompted with a separate window to save the PDF, regardless of what location is specified by Revit. If one prints multiple PDF's to separate files, each file seem to essentially overlap the previous one before it can be saved.
I have Revit Architecture. This seems to be a common problem amongst Revit users. It doesnt happen in any other program. The Cute PDF writer does the same thing, in fact it is now printing 3 copies of a sheet instead of 2.
I want to print out a large review article, available as a pdf, with an extra 1" left margin to facilitate getting it bound. I've heard it happens naturally in Acrobat Pro, but I don't have it and am not inclined to dish out the license fee since I don't imagine using it for anything else.
As ''sufficient prior research'', I scanned through the existing questions, and while there are many that caress this point, I found the intentions in this question closest. However, I am a windows user, and am printing an existing pdf file, so it doesn't address my concern.
This will automatically downscale your content or rearrange the layout (only if needed; again, might depend on a setting), to properly fit the pages, without you having to toy around with fake page sizes etc.
You may also try to actually edit the PDF using the tool suggested in the question linked by you (which is indeed essentially a duplicate). Just have a look at feklee's answer. Even though the initial question has been aiming at MacOS X, this answer should work cross-platform.
A 1 year late answer, However, there is a free utility to do soPDFill PDF tools utility, you can choose reformat pages and you will see a bunch of customizations including page margins!. You might need to get used to how it works and try a few times before you get what you want though, nevertheless, it's a great program.
Besides converting all texts to images, one method as I know, is to destroy the Cmaps of the fonts. We can use cmap package and a special cmap file for this purpose. This cmap file is generated inside the VerbatimOut environment.
Luatex allows manipulating fonts in the define_font callback.Luaotfload facilitates this even more with an extra hook it installsright after the font loader has finished its job: theluaotfload.patch_font callback.Normally it is used for serious and constructive tasks like setting acouple font dimensions or ensuring backward compatibility in the datastructures.Of course, it can also be abused for dirty hacks like disabling copyand paste.
At the point where the patch_font callback is applied, the font isalready defined and ready to use.All necessary tables are created and put in a place where Luatexexpects them.Among these is the characters table that holds preprocessedinformation about the glyphs.In the below code we modify the tounicode field of each glyph sothat it maps to some random location within the printable ASCII range.Note that this does not affect the shape and metrics of the glyph sincethose are unrelated to the actual codepoint.As a consequence, the PDF will contain legible text that cannot becopied.
If content can be viewed, it can be copied.No matter what encryption and restrictions are used, at some point the content must be put out in plain view in order for it to be of any use.This is probably true of all digital content and most physical content larger than the nanoscale...
Please note that you cannot prevent people from using OCR software like Tesseract on the output. I'm not even sure if making the PDF an image prevents todays search engines from indexing your PDF. The file size increases, people with eye problems will have a harder time. So think hard if you really want to harm your readers like that.
You can use ImageMagick to convert the pdf to an image pdf.Running convert file1.pdf file2.pdf will create a pdf called file2.pdf which is about the same size as the input pdf but since its an image, the text cannot be selected. There is a notable decrease in quality though
Though this would obviously be just a nuisance for most cases/users (which can be avoided using LuaLaTeX instead), depending on what you are trying to achieve compiling with XeTeX may prove to add at least some value to your solution...
I came up with the following solution:I'm using ocrmypdf ( ) which behind the scenes uses Tesseract, and I force it to OCR my pdf in a language with a very different alphabet (e.g. Korean). This will effectively replace my text content with none-sense, because of the differences in alphabets.
However as I have seen that defeated both by above mentioned "Typist" technique and also seen it cannot detect some "freeware" screen OCR grabbers, It would be pointless for anyone else to have given this as a valid answer.
Hello! I am researching affordable, aka free pdf software for my coworkers that could really use a program that allows them to import and extract pages in a document.
Can anyone confirm that the free downloadable Sumatra PDF program would actually include this feature?
Whilst there are ways to script the current page location to a backend editor application, a feature used with LaTeX editors that can add or remove PDF contents on the fly, that is unlikely to suite your intended usage.
SumatraPDF can be used in a commercial setting as a frontend to any enhanced virtual printer, which in turn can add or remove pages as required.
Splitting pages only to image based files can be done most easily by using command line instructions to the Microsoft PDF printer, as discussed in other topics.
in short -print-to "Microsoft Print to PDF" -print-settings %p "%1"
but you will still need to provide a named output file or filename port, for automation you will find a programmable Print Driver as included in some of the above mentioned products is better.
Alternatively if non comercial users wish to extract just the current page we can combine with cpdf (other products are available) using SumatraPDF settings by adding to ExternalViewers
CommandLine = "path to\cpdf.exe" "%1" %p "%1-page-%p"
PDFSAM a simple portable GUI driven java app (from the same stable as the more extensive sejda* version) is one that has a Free Open Source basic version that can easily be called from SumatraPDF. There are limitations to this simplicity, since without adding a more complex page handling mechanism, we are initially constrained to only passing one filename. Expanding to include multiple files in preset workspaces is possible but goes well beyond the scope of this post.
For Merging you will need to dismiss that screen and use the Merge option in the dashboard to find and select the current file along with other(s).
We could work around the limitation by adding a dummy pdf (e.g. cover.pdf)
then delete or use the entry (note the dummy file must exist)
so adding to the above,
For such needs, Sumatra is not the best choice. It is a pdf reader and as I know it can not be used for splitting or editing the pdf files. I personally never used it for such needs. There are a lot of online pdf editors where you can merge or split the pdf pages. For example, I use [url=commercial site removed] you need just to import the pdf file and you can edit it as you want.
Over the years, retaining hyperlinks in exported PDF files has been a top user request. With Illustrator v27.6 and newer, you can now create & preserve your hyperlinks when exporting your artwork as PDF files.
I wasn't able to do in Ai but I exported my Ai file as a PDF. Opened it in Acrobat, went to Edit Document and added a link. I created the invisible textbox around my icon and chose "Open a web page" for my link Action.
Text boxes with links are clickable in pdf, you have to scale it your button size and give 0% transparency. then export the pdf with Embed Page Thumbnails turned on. if and then only, any text with link will be clickable.
NB: this is not a 'true hyperlink' but can be an easy fix if you want to exclude Acrobat/Indesign from your workflow.
Text boxes with links are clickable in pdf, you have to scale it your button size and give 0% transparency. then export the pdf with Embed Page Thumbnails turned on. if and then only, any text with link will be clickable.
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