pdf-reader interview questions
Top pdf-reader frequently asked interview questions
Is there any way I can check a PDF for exploits? I am on Linux most of the times but I sometimes have to read PDF's on Windows also, so I have to be extra sure that the PDF is clean. I use Acrobat Reader on Windows and Evince on Linux.
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Is there any software for Windows or web based application that would allow me to open pdf and before closing create a bookmark so I know where to 'open my book' next time?
I can see that there is a question from a linux user. I need windows version or web based application.
The best would be to mark exact paragraph, or even a word
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The default pdf handler in Windows 8 is the "Reader" app, which runs in the new UI only. Aside from using a "normal" pdf reader (Foxit/Adobe) is there any other way I can make the Reader app run in desktop ui mode.
I am looking for this, because I am used to opening PDF and an editor side by side (50%). The modern UI only gives me one-thirds, which is not what I want
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I am using Okular as my pdf reader on Linux. I want to know how I can modify the color of the highlight permanently. I know I can modify the saturation of the color used by highlight tool by right clicking on the highlight selection and making the desired modifications. However, those are applicable only to the current selection.
How can I set okular to maintain those settings for every highlight in the file(and still allow customising at specific positions) and also maintain them after the file is closed [and opened later .i.e. the settings are not lost]
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When reading an ebook PDF with a hundred pages I need to jump quickly to different sections of the book and go back.
The problem is after I jump to that section there is no quick way to go back where I left off.
Is there a PDF reader for Windows that has that feature?
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I would like a PDF viewer that I can search documents with using regular expressions. Is there such a thing? I've tried PowerGrep, but it doesn't have a graphical viewer and its interface is a little heavy for my users.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration
Iain
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I would like to see simultaneously pages in the beginning of the document and at the end. I can do that by opening the same document on different windows. But when I try to do so, the first instance opens and I can't open a second one. I'll will install a second PDF visualizer to do it, but I wonder if I could do something that didn't require such extreme measure.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to alter the background and text colors of pdf - either to preset 'high contrast' colors or your own choices - and this makes reading onscreen much easier.
Is it possible to do this with Preview?
Thanks.
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I view a lot of PDFs on my wide display (1280x800).
I want to view books with two pages on screen at once, but some PDFs have huge margins, so only ~60-70% of screen space is used even if I hide the menubar and toolbar in Acrobat Reader.
Are there any PDF viewers available which can cancel wide margins (hide them)? I will have a bigger font and higher usage of my screen area.
Requirements:
- Windows 32-bit
- Ability of view mode "Two-Up"/"Facing" (the two pages are viewed side-by-side, second is left from first)
- Full-screen or "no toolbars" mode
- Hiding of wide margins (with scaling of pages, no reflow needed; automatic or easy configuration of margins size)
- Easy scrolling available (when I press a space, show the exactly next pair of pages; not the bottom part of current pages)
- I need a viewer, not a PDF crop utility (PDF files must be kept in original form)
Already tested (they can't do what I want or I can't find the needed mode):
- Acrobat Reader 9
- Foxit Reader
- STDU Viewer
- Sumatra PDF (it tries, but it doesn't hide the margins, and the "Fit content" mode with two pages side-by-side does resizing wrong sometimes)
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I am reading through several PDF eBooks on 2 different Windows PCs and 1 Android tablet. I would like to come up with an easy way to "bookmark" my current page that will work on all environments. So if I set my last page while reading the PDF on a Windows PC, then I start reading the same book later on the Android tablet, I would like for the Android tablet to remember what the last page was.
Some of these eBooks are secured PDFs, so I don't think I can rely on the standard PDF bookmarks functionality.
Has anyone found a good way to do this? Perhaps store the PDFs out in the cloud and use PDF readers on the PC and Android that keep the current page in sync?
Or perhaps it would be easier to convert the PDF to some other format and then bookmark it?
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This question already has an answer here:
Here is my scenario and system:
System: Win-7, 64-bit.
Scenario: Very simply, I have a folder on my Dropbox account, titled \Papers. Within this folder, I have a lot of PDF files, and I have even more sub-folders of various names, also with PDF files.
What I want to do, is simply enter a search word, and have something return all the PDFs starting in the \Papers root directory that have that keyword.
Is there something that does this seamlessly and nicely? My only other option is to go through my hundreds of PDFs one by one and attempt to sort them like that. I would rather not do that.
P.S. I am open to moving all my PDFs to a cloud storage service that might in fact have such nice search capabilities. If that is easier to do, feel free to bring my attention to it. I am currently only aware of Dropbox and Google Drive.
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I have a PDF file containing maps of the building I work in, here:
http://www.libsys.und.edu/dev/FloorPlans_All.pdf
The original source files have been lost, and I've been asked to extract the map images, preferably without the text and icons that have been overlaid on top of them. This has proven annoyingly difficult.
So far, I have tried the following GUI programs:
- Adobe Reader: lets me select text, but not the background images
- FoxIt PDF Viewer: lets me select text, but not the background images
- XPDF on Ubuntu 10.10: lets mes select text, but not the background images
And also the following command-line programs:
- pdfimages: extracts the icons indicating bathrooms just fine, but not the background images
- pdftohtml: same as pdfimages, plus it makes a poorly marked up HTML document
- pdfextract: same as pdfimages
- convert: successfully saved images, but with the text burned into them
I've even tried opening the PDF manually in a text editor and extracting the stream objects by pasting them into a new file and saving it with a .jpg, .png, or .bmp extension (each in turn). Considering how little I know about the internal structure of PDF files, it's no surprise that this didn't work.
So ... is there any way I can retrieve the map images from this thing without also getting the text and icons?
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As more and more books appear in electronic form, I'm looking for a way to actually read them. Just staring at the PDFs on screen isn't enough. I want to:
- Highlight important parts and put notes and bookmarks there.
- Have some kind of synchronization mechanism, since I use one computer at work and a couple of others at home and of course I want to see my annotations in both places.
- All this should preferably be cross-platform (Windows and Linux at least).
Is there anything - possibly an on-line service - that would fulfill these needs? Foxit reader has good annotation capabilities, but only on Windows, and no way to sync anything. Perhaps the sync thing could be accomplished by (mis)using some version control service like GitHub, but it feels a bit clumsy. Or then of course I could store all my books in an USB stick, but...
Any ideas/experiences?
Edit: I found that Foxit Reader 3.0 works quite well under Wine in Ubuntu. Add Dropbox to that, and there it is... Everything I asked for :-)
Foxit Reader 3.1 seems crash with Wine, but 3.0 works flawlessly so far.
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I'm working on a latex document (with pdflatex, cygwin, acrobat reader) and I'm am tired of the make - close - open process.
On osx with Preview I don't have that problem, since I can compile the .tex files, while the resulting pdf is opened in the viewer (which gets updated after the build process).
Whereas on Win7, with Acrobat Reader, my pdflatex (tex-live 2012) complains that it [...] can't write on file xxx.pdf. I guess the reader locks the pdf file.
How do you efficiently produce/edit .tex files on Win7? I preferably would stick to using makefiles and a text editor instead of a windows latex build environment.
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