For university, i like to print out my professors scripts. They usually use beamer- or powerpoint presentations throughout the lectures.  My goal is to have two presentation sheets on one A4 page.  With Adobe Acrobat, this seems to be not so big of a deal but since i switched to Linux completely, i would like to find a solution that works fine without having to use acroread, pdfstudio or another closed source program.  I tried printing with evince, okular and several other applications (which all feature multi-page-printing-options), but the results were often not rotated incorrectly or where scaled much too small. Not having a print-preview doesn't make things easier.  So my newest idea would be to create a new .pdf with imagemagick and have two sheets on one page, one above the other so that i can print it out as big as possible.  Imagemagick should be capable of doing that, but i don't know the right commands!  If there's anyone knowing other/better solutions to the problem, you're of course welcome to share!
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I have a PDF with 100 pages. How can I make a new PDF that displays 4 pages on one?  I know that I can do it with Chrome by printing the PDF to new PDF and change this in the options. But I want to make it for a lot of files and put it as a script.
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I'm trying to create a beamer presentation with several images replacing each other on consecutive slides. I've gotten it to work with overprint and \onslide, but cannot get the images centered on the slide.  \begin{center}   \begin{overprint}     \onslide&lt;2&gt;\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{images/stack1.pdf}         \onslide&lt;3&gt;\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{images/stack2.pdf}     \onslide&lt;4&gt;\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{images/stack3.pdf}     \onslide&lt;5&gt;\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{images/stack4.pdf}     \onslide&lt;6&gt;\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{images/stack5.pdf}     \onslide&lt;7&gt;\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{images/stack6.pdf}     \onslide&lt;8&gt;\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{images/stack7.pdf}   \end{overprint} \end{center}   Anything outside of the overprint environment gets properly centered, but not the images themselves.
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One of my collegues is trying to print a PDF that our designer has sent him, created using Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0.4).  When he opens it up using Evince (version 2.28 on Ubuntu 9.10 thin client) it displays exactly how we expect it to, however when he prints it's not rendering correctly, for example:   Missing one logo, the other dozen display perfectly Missing a white box with 30% opacity (without this the blue text sits on a light blue background) The dotted border of a box is screwed up (missing dots in the corners, but fine on the straights) Finally the font quality is slightly poorer than a print out we've done on a working machine.   I have tried it on my Ubuntu dev box (Evince version 2.22 on Ubuntu 8.04 server) and it displays and prints perfectly.  Can anyone offer an explanation as to why this might be happening, I find it hard to understand how an older version of Evince is displaying it better than a newer version.  Thanks!  EDIT  Just for anyone surfing in, it's likely yo be a CUPS problem on our server, cheers ;-)
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Do you know a good way to compare PDF files side-by-side and show the modifications between the two?  I'm looking for Windows software to accomplish this. It would be great if you can post both free and not-free products.
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I have been given an  file which seems to be readily opened only on Windows based machines. I was under the impression that I could use  to convert the file to PDF, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Is there:   A way to use Acrobat Pro to do this conversion? A recommended FOSS mechanism? A good recommendation for an XPS viewer?   Thanks!
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I have saved multiple images from google books. I wanted to convert them to a single pdf file, where in I need some inputs. The below two images(one png and one jpeg) are two continuous pages.      I save them in my system. I converted them to pdf using the command below  convert books.png books.jpeg combined.pdf   However the combined.pdf is not giving me expected results, not the combination of the two.  I also tried making individual pdf files, then combining them using pdftk, with no luck  convert books.png book1.pdf convert books.jpeg book2.pdf pdftk book1.pdf book2.pdf cat output combined.pdf
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I'm on Adobe Creative Cloud, so I have the latest InDesign, and I'm attempting to design a poster for my choir's next concert. Traditionally, I've done this in Photoshop, in two separate files, however I've recently started using InDesign after converting to it to create wedding albums through Blurb.  I've created an A4 document, and created an alternate-layout for it in A5. I've then lined them up side-by-side, and I've added a black frame to the A4 page, to act as the black background for my page (by the way, feel free to advise on better ways to do this).  My assumption is that I've failed to understand how this works, as I was hoping that I'd magically get a black frame on the A5 version, and that I could use liquid layout to get this to automatically scale (along with all other elements), in order to create the two versions simultaneously.  All help/advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Say you have two versions of the same LaTeX document.    For instance, you have one version of your lecture slides for actually delivering a lecture: as you're really not a big fan of the "wall of text", this version would be parsimonious in terms of text content, allowing the audience to listen to what you're talking  about instead of reading the slides, and giving graphical content centre stage.  Another version of those slides, made available to the audience after the lecture, for self-study, would be more self-contained and include a summary of what you said during that lecture along with the graphical content mentioned above.  Consider that you can toggle between the two versions by either changing a class option or by changing the value of some dedicated counter in your input file; something relatively simple to do "by hand".  To produce two different versions of the same document, my current workflow is   "manually" compile the first version, change the filename of the output produced (in order to prevent overwriting in step 4) make appropriate changes in my input file to switch to the second version, "manually" compile the second version.   However, this workflow is tedious and error-prone, especially when the number of different versions increases. I would like to automate it as much as possible. Is there a way to batch compile all the versions of my document, each getting a different output filename?  I guess that would involve modifying the input file at the command line (I'm on Mac OS X), but I don't know how to do that.  Do you have an automated workflow for compiling multiple versions of the same document? How do you do it?  Edit: I figured it out using  and  on , of which my question is a duplicate.
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Most of the time when presenting a talk people connect their laptop to a video projector. So they effectively have an extra screen at their disposal. Because of that many Software options for presentations use the extra screen of the laptop to display notes, time left for the talk, a preview of the next slide and such information to the presenter.  I'm using LaTeX-Beamer which outputs a pdf. I'd like to have notes, a preview of the next slide and the time I have left for my talk displayed to me on the laptop screen, while the projector shows the regular presentation slides.  Ideally this program should work under Linux (Ubuntu 12.04). Does such a program exist?
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I have to number the pages in ACM2017 proceedings and I am using the acmart template. However \pagenumbering... commands and preprint option for document class do not work. Any suggestions?  Edit: I am using sigconfdocument class, which is available on the following website:   and as a minimal example in the following link:
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I was hoping to find a way to insert several (many) pages of a pdf but crop off the header (with the date, filename, etc.). I'm using   \subsection{Notes} \includepdf[scale=0.8,pages=8-20,pagecommand=\subsection{blub}]{Notes.pdf}   but maybe I need to use pdftk somehow to do the batch cropping?   Thanks for any suggestions!
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I am a relative (La)TeX newbie! I want to split an A4 scanned image across two pages! Is there a  package to achieve this or is it possible to do this manually so that to be able to define the exact  splitting point?
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I am interested in displaying some things (e.g.: title page) in full color on screen, while having the same object/page display in a black and white friendly form when printed.  According to , there is built-in functionality in the PDF specification for Screen-Only objects and Screen-And-Print objects.  There may also be a way to add a layer on top of the B&amp;W page that only displays the full color page on screen via the PDF 1.5 Optional Content Groups feature.  Similarly,  demonstrates the selective printing of text via ocg-p.  But it is not clear how I can use this package in the way that I need to.  My scenario is compounded by the fact that my color page text is white on a dark background.  MWE:  This code presents the way I am currently switching back and forth between color and b&amp;w.  I change the printincolor bool variable to make the change.  \documentclass[11pt]{article}  \usepackage[demo]{graphicx} \usepackage{etoolbox}  \providebool{printincolor} % Will set color title page and section headings \setbool{printincolor}{false}  % Setup color if needed \ifbool{printincolor}{% \usepackage[pagecolor=none]{pagecolor}% \definecolor{MyBlue}{HTML}{1b3667}% \usepackage{afterpage}}{}  \begin{document}  % Begin Title Page {  \thispagestyle{empty}   \ifbool{printincolor}{%   \pagecolor{MyBlue}%   \afterpage{\nopagecolor}}{}   \begin{center}   {\ifbool{printincolor}{\color{white}\sffamily}{\sffamily}%  Set text color white or leave [default] black   \ifbool{printincolor}{\includegraphics[width=1.5in]{logo-gold}}{\includegraphics{logo-blue}}% put logo gold or blue   \\ \vskip 1in   \begin{huge}         \textbf{Title}         \vskip 0.1ex\rule{0.5\textwidth}{0.8pt}\vskip 1ex         Subtitle         \\         \end{huge}   \vfill\vfill   \begin{large}    Authors:\\   John Doe and Jane Doe\\   \end{large}   }   \end{center} }  \end{document}   How can I layer (or otherwise display) two versions of the title page in a way that color displays on screen, but black and white is printed?
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I have 3 folders:  Folder 1  Folder 2 Folder 3   In each folder I have 5 pdf files:      Folder 1         file1.pdf        file2.pdf     Folder 2        file1.pdf        file2.pdf     Folder 3        file1.pdf        file2.pdf   I want that in each folder to have a combined file of those two files:      Folder 1         binder.pdf     Folder 2        binder.pdf     Folder 3        binder.pdf   Any idea? Don't tell to do it manually. This case is just to explain you my problem. Think that I have hundreds of folders. :) Maybe I can use another tool instead of Adobe Acrobat?!
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I work with people who use ArcGIS Desktop and they have found the best resolution output images are made by creating PDFs. They tell me that *.png and the rest out of ArcGIS Desktop are not satisfactory and that they do not bother with them. Typically we are making the output appear in a report and so the PDFs of the maps and words are assembled in a PDF editor package to make the final document.   As a result I have been toying around with QGIS on my Windows 7 machine and notice that the best output comes by printing directly out of the map composer.  This output on my Docuprint C2120 printer is as good as any of the ArcGIS Desktop PDFs and is truly impressive. QGIS makes very attractive maps in this configuration.   However, I do not seem to be able to create PDFs or .pngs and then print them which are anywhere near as good. I find the .svg output to Inkscape unrealiable where, for instance, the grid/graticule may come out oversized.   By way of example, the good quality output is where a sub-6 pt font can be read easily off the printed page.   Any thoughts?  I am using QGIS trunk.
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I typically have two needs:  Scenario A. Change a single PDF page.  In this case I have a PDF but not the original source file used to create the PDF. I don't want to try to recreate the document from scratch. I'd like to open the PDF and change a few things. A good example of this scenario: I was responsible for planning a big event at a campground site, I had a PDF of the site. I wanted to start with that document, highlight some parts, add some labels, remove some parts that weren't relevant.   or   Scenario B. Combine PDFs or extract page(s) from a PDF  This scenario usually arises because I want a single PDF deliverable that is made up of parts that are best created in different programs. In this case I have the source files for all the documents but they don't play well enough together to easily create a single PDF deliverable. For part of it, I may want to use Libre Office Writer. For another page I may want to use Gimp. Still another page I may use Libre Office Calc. I could use Writer as the master document and embed images or the Calc object into that, but for ultimate control, you can't beat separate PDF documents that are then combined.  What are the best tools / processes for editing PDFs in Ubuntu?
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I have 3 pdf files (a.pdf, b.pdf and c.pdf) with 50 images per file. I need to insert every page of each pdf one by one (3 in a row). Not all pages from first pdf and all from another, but one page from a.pdf, one from b.pdf and c.pdf   Desired output would be to have one document with pages:  1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 3c....50a, 50b, 50c  MWE  \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{pdfpages}  \begin{document}  \includepdfmerge[nup=1x3] {a.pdf, 1,2,3, b.pdf, 1,2,3, c.pdf, 1,2,3}  \end{document}