How To Make 4 Pdfs Into 1
Tonja Witcraft
Impressively, ChatGPT built a mostly usable dataset. At first glance, I even thought I had a perfectly extracted dataset. But once I went through the pages and compared values, I started to notice errors. Some names were misspelled. Some were missing entirely. Some numbers were wrong.
Problems with large language models have been well documented by now. Even with the great advances in ChatGPT, some of them reared their head in my experiments. Attempts to ignore these problems and shovel ChatGPT-derived work directly to readers will inevitably lead to disastrous failures.
The totality of these problems make most uses of ChatGPT editorially impractical, especially at scale. But I think it still has a place. For small, under-resourced newsrooms that need to turn a small PDF into a table, this could be workable (Hey ChatGPT, can you turn this text into an array of JSON objects?).
ChatGPT extraction could also serve well as an exploratory tool or a lead generator, in use cases where mistakes and missing values are tolerable, or speculative situations where you want to get a taste of the data before sinking weeks into a real cleanup and analysis.
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Any ideas on how to do this using either a script or Zapier/Integromat, possible using Formstack (does not have to use formstack though)? Would love any insight - I am capable of coding in JavaScript and can leverage that if necessary.
I do something like this for my business invoices. I build an HTML version of the invoice (pieces made in various linked tables, all rolled up into the main invoice and assembled via some helper formulas), and click a field button to trigger a script that calls an Integromat webhook, passing the record ID. The Integromat scenario pulls the HTML from the Airtable record, sends it to CloudConvert to convert it to a PDF file, then saves the PDF into an attachment field in Airtable.
Yes, you can do this with Integromat by using DocuPilot or FormStack Documents. DocuPilot is the preferred way to go, since it is cheaper than FormStack. But there are other document-generating websites that you could use as well.
Hello i just want a detail about the Puneet question. Page designer can make a pdf right but it cant do it automaticaly right? i find the way to export the pdt with the printer function but is it impossible do export pdt automaticaly when a record is done? I will be very happy if this way exist but can you confirm it? Thanks Carly
In many instances the local rules permit or require filers to merge several documents into a single PDF document for filing purposes. If all the documents to be merged are PDFs, follow the instructions immediately below to make a single PDF from several PDFs. If all the documents to be merged are not PDFs (e.g., print documents), see the directions at the bottom of this page. All of these instructions apply only to Adobe Acrobat Professional and Standard. A Filing User utilizing other software to create PDFs must follow the software vendor's instructions for creating a single PDF from multiple PDFs.
3. Select each file to be combined by clicking on the file name in the Add Files dialog box. Holding down the Shift or Ctrl key when clicking on a file name permits a Filing User to add more than one file at a time. When finished selecting file names, click Open at the bottom of the dialog box.
4. The selected files now appear in the Combine Files window in Adobe Acrobat Professional. The files may be viewed as thumbnails or in a list (as shown below) by selecting the view type at the top right of the window.
To change the order in which the files appear in the merged combined document, highlight the name of the file to appear first then click the up arrow at the bottom left of the window to move that file to the top of the list.
If a Filing User wishes to combine documents that currently exist in various formats into a single PDF, the easiest process is to print out all the documents and scan them into a single document from a scanner that creates text-searchable PDFs. Before filing the PDF in CM/ECF, the filer must verify that the resulting PDF is is text-searchable and properly paginated.
We have figured out a 'work-around' to the problem of maintaining live hyperlinks in PDFs throughout the entire exporting/importing process in InDesign. However, it's purely a bandaid - although it works well. It would be great to have this process built in as a feature. I've attached a PDF with our workflow methodologies for your review.
Yup. This is very annoying. When putting together an interactive ebook newsletter with imported PDF advertisements sent from the advertiser with their links embedded, having to recreate the links in inDesign is a serious software flaw.
We've been placing small INDD files (1-5 pages), with working hyperlinks, into larger INDD files (15-20 pages). The larger files are collected into a InDesign Book. When the Book is exported to PDF (either Interactive, or Print PDF with Tags), none of the links work since upgrading to InDesign 17.0.1 (Windows). (If the smaller files are exported directly to PDF, the links work.)
These links inside a Book PDF DID work in previous versions of InDesign (for the past 3-5 years)--why was this functionality removed?! Please bring it back!
One thing I noticed is that e-mail addresses and website addresses with www. and in placed content (as long as the text is unflattened) will be live in the exported PDF. But otherwise, whether it's a .PDF or another .INDD file, the link will be rendered inert. Also, if the URL has www. and is written in ALL CAPS, it will also be rendered inert. I don't know if this is a clue as to how to fix this, but I just want the hyperlinks to work without having to create it manually AGAIN.
Hi Frank. Can you share the work-around for this? I have catalog overloaded with links, and my client wants every link in each PDF to make it into the final PDF. Attached is just one of about 30 PDFs.
No just hyperlinks!
Any time a PDF is placed in InDesign, it should retain all of these interactive elements when it's exported in the final PDF:
-- Hyperlinks in the source PDF
-- Buttons in the source PDF
-- Accessibility tags and features in the source PDF
We do an online magazine that includes PDF advertisements. If the advertiser included hyperlinks in their original PDF ad, those are ignored once the PDF is placed into the indesign doc. So after placing in InDesign, we have to hand-draw dummy boxes over top of the ad's hyperlinked area and then manually type in the URL to make it an active hyperlink. It would be nice if there was checkbox in the IMPORT OPTIONS pane to "IMPORT HYPERLINKS" from the placed PDF.
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I'm using the desktop app of OneNote on my Surface Pro. I use dark mode, lines or grids, and many fun colors to take and organize my notes. Dark mode is easier on the eyes and less distracting when writing notes in a dark classroom.
The only way to export and save these notes is to print as PDF but it doesn't save in dark mode. Instead, the background is light, the lines or grids is the most noticeable feature of the PDF, and I can't read half of my written notes because I'm trying to read white or yellow writing on a white page. It also seems like some colors aren't compatible with printing because there are many blank spaces.
I don't intend to actually print these. Printing a completely black page is a waste of ink and makes no sense. That's probably why the print to PDF feature turns it to a white page. However, I want the ability to save my notes as a PDF exactly as they appear in OneNote. Is there a way to do this? If not, can this feature be included in an update? I'm most frustrated because iPad users using an iOS app have this feature.
If you are looking to use dark mode on your iPad, you can do it by going into any page, going into the "View" tab at the top, and then select "Switch Background", which should turn your Background from light to dark and back.
From what I have heard, the only way to do it would be to go through the mobile app, turning on dark mode on the mobile app, and then and then try saving it as a PDF. It should work, but I had problems with very long notes.
If you deleted the notes from your PC and then sync to your phone, the notes that you wanted to keep may be deleted due to the sync. HOWEVER, if you deleted the notes that you wanted to keep in the last 60 days, I would definitely recommend to do the following:
Click View and then click Deleted Notes. Any notes you deleted in the last 60 days should reappear and right clicking one of these notes will give you the option to restore them. This is in the case that you have not permenantly deleted them.
This abundance of content types can make working with PDFs difficult. There are several different kinds of data to decode when opening a PDF file! Fortunately, the Python ecosystem has some great packages for reading, manipulating, and creating PDF files.
Every PdfReader object has a .pages attribute that you can use to iterate over all of the pages in the PDF file in order. For example, the following for loop prints the text from every page in the Pride and Prejudice PDF:
The width and height arguments are required. They determine the dimensions of the page in user space units. One of these units is equal to 1/72 of an inch, so the above code adds an A4 blank page to pdf_writer.
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