Find in a pdf file

How do I do a "find" in a pdf file?

Ctrl+F (on Windows). Note that you can only search documents that contain actual text, not scanned images.

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How do I find the 'invisible' pdf file of the iphoto book?

Hi!
Under Panther, there was a technique for finding the pdf file that iPhoto created of the book that was sent to be printed. Since I last tried this technique, I upgraded both machine and system. Now the technique doesn't work. At least I can't find the right pdf file, anywhere.
Has Apple changed how it creates the iphoto books? Is there a new way of naming the resulting pdf files? I'd like to check the file before ordering the book.
Thanks!

Try this way:
How to Find the iPhoto Generated PDF File:
1 - Start the ordering process and stop after the book has been assembled.
2 - Since Spotlight cannot find and display invisible files it is difficult to locate the iPhoto generated pdf file. I use the application Kilometre, which does show invisible files, to locate and copy the PDF file to the desktop. You can also use a 3rd party application like Cocktail or TinkerTool to make all invisible file visible for this purpose but don't forget to make them invisible again after you're done.
3 - The file will be located in your HD/private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/iPhoto folder. You can then Option-drag it to the desktop to get a copy of it.
4 - Preview the PDF file and then, if satisfactory, you can continue with the ordering process.
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.
O.T.

Acrobat 9.3.4 no longer finds bookmarked non-PDF files (and then launches assoc app)

I produce a documentation DVD consisting of a one-page PDF file of ~ 1400 bookmarks and a lot of content. The bookmarks point to the content on the DVD which includes pdf files as well as text, DOC, XLS, and other misc. file types, and a large number of html, swf, flv, .jpg, etc. files which make up 4 complete web sites. The web sites are entirely contained on the DVD (no extermal internet access is referenced or required)
Content is accessed by clicking a bookmark which simply opens the file (regardless of type.) Prior to Acrobat 9.3.4, appropriate warnings popped up for non-PDF files but if allowed by the user, the appropriate app was launched for the requested file.
Since applying 9.3.4, a "Launch File" warning box pops up showing the file name (which lacks a device) and when the warning's "Open" button is pressed, a Windows error appears with the message "Windows cannot find 'file.txt'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file.... ", and finally an Adobe Acrobat information box pops up and says "Could not open the file 'path/file.txt' ".
I have read and re-read about launching external apps, restricted urls and attachments, trust manager preferences, etc. etc. I've added the files to the privileged locations list under the enhanced security settings and on and on. It no longer works, yet I tested this DVD on several computers just last week and it worked fine. So, as a shot in the dark, I decided to fire up my laptop and test it there again.
Once on, the laptop immediately wanted to update about 12,000 software products but I politely said "No, wait until i test this out!" The test was successful and the DVD's pdf file worked great again! At that point I let the machine apply the Acrobat 9.3.4 update (and some uncountable number of Windows patches and fixes.) It's running a current version of Win7. After the reboot, i tried the DVD again (under Acrobat 9.3.4) and it failed as described above. Because of Win7 I was able to revert to acrobat 9.3.2 using System Restore. After doing that, the DVD worked again.
Most of our user's machines are either Macs or WinXP (current versions) and i haven't had time to figure out if you can even recover from this update under those OS's. (It says you cannot remove it from XP, however.) Regardless, even if i can do it for my laptop and get it working again, i cannot do it for all of our users.
So, my question is if i am not doing something wrong, how do i let someone at Adobe know this release is broken?? If i am doing something wrong on the other hand, what is it and how do i get this to work again??
Thanks all.

Thanks. I did submit a report at the site. I hope somebody reads it as this is a big problem for us.
Thanks again.

Mozilla can't find a valid PDF file to open in a browser, but Chrome or IE work without problem. Why?

The system I'm running is Scientific Linux.
PDF files, I need to open in a browser, are on the file server, but in the same folder as my html files, etc.
So, in HTML I gave the link to some PDF to open it in the browser, however, Mozilla says it can't find the file by the given URL.
Proper permissions to access the files are given.
All is lowercase, no spelling error.
On Chrome, on the same computer, everything works fine.
I've also tested on Windows, still Chrome or IE work without problem.
Any ideas?

Thanks for your reply!
I've checked the link, and everything is set to its normal form in my browser.
Otherwise this particular case, the browser has no problems viewing PDF files,
but here, when I try to open the PDF (using HTML code, say,
href="downloads\file1.pdf" where "downloads" is a folder on the same level as the html file) then the error I am getting is this
Not Found
The requested URL (the name) was not found on this server.

Find a scanned pdf file saved through canon Pixma software

Hi,
i've scanned and saved a pdf file via Canon Pixma software, to my mobile device (one of the options via Canon) and cannot find it. I've checked the iBooks collections and it's not there.
Welcome all ideas and comments.
Thanks
R

Could you share a sample file with me? That will help us analyze the issue.
Thanks
Varinder

Finder Window Sidebar: PDF file under Places?

On my MacBook Pro, several weeks ago I noticed a PDF file listed under "Places" on the sidebar. I have no idea how it got there, and no idea how to remove it. Any suggestions?

Success! I had AppleCare on the line for an hour or more on this one and they could not figure it out. The PDF would not highlight, but I could grab it and pull it out of the side bar. It would typically just flip back into place once I let go. Your suggestions about using the Command key worked. Many thanks!

Find and open PDF file saved in Adobe Cloud

I saved a pdf form in acrobat. I cannot access it, How do I do dat?

Hi Peter,
What error do you get when you try to open te pdf in Acrobat?
What version of Acrobat and OS are you using?
Are you able to download the saved file from the cloud to a local folder?
Regards,
Rave

How to Enable the Preview of PDF Files in 64-bit Windows 7

If you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (or Vista), you will find that your PDF files do not preview in Windows Explorer as they do in the 32-bit versions. Instead, all you see is a message stating that This file can’t be previewed. To enable this functionality on your 64-bit operating system, follow these steps.
1. Click the Orb (Start Button).
2. Go to the Search programs and files textbox and input regedit.
3. Select regedit.exe from the results.
4. When the UAC prompt appears, click the Yes button.
5. In the left pane of the Registry Editor, go to (and select): 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}
6. In the right pane, locate AppID.
7. Change AppID value to {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}.
8. Restart your computer for the change to take affect.

still get "c\This file can't be previewed" in right pane of Windows Explorer for all PDF files.
OS is Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit.
Acrobat is 9.0 Standard
Acrobat Reader XI also installed (ver 11.0.10)
changed the registry AppID and get same results.
Any more suggestions?

Change name of open PDF file - Edit the file - Save OK

Possibility to open a PDF file, change its name in the Finder, edit the PDF file inside (eg., using the yellow fluorescent marker) and then save it.
Now you cannot do it because you get an error.
Yet, that can be done virtually on any other Mac application.
Thanks.

I change the pdf file & word file rename But I facing the problem. and problem is i change the rename pdf file and show is error (If you change a file name extension. the file may become unusable. are u sure you want to change it.)
then after enter pres file change on jpg file . Pls solution this problem urgently.
Thank You
regards
Sudeep Sharma
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Using Excel VBA to save PDF file as a text (plain) file?

I'm using 8.0 Acrobat Pro.
Third party apps are not an option (I'm restricted from installing anything on my office PC).
I could simply save each PDF manually, but given the number of files this would not be practical.
The text it will output does not have to be pretty by any means (and I'm aware it won't be).
As long as I can get the PDF files in a text file format, there would be no further obstacles for me - because I would then be able to get Excel to gather-import all the data and consolidate-clean-organize everything accordingly at that point.
What's in these PDF files are simply names, numbers, and email addresses (basic office text type data stuff simple).
I wish to save them all as text files, and then use Excel to suck all the data from those newly created text files and consolidate-organize them accordingly.
The VBA module I've seen referrenced around the web is the following beneath; however, I am having no luck with it.
I keep getting the error message:
ActiveX component can't create object or return reference to this object (Error 429)
I am running Microsoft Office 2010 | Excel (and using Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.0).
Any help is extremely appreciated.
Here is the VB code in Excel I'm having trouble with: What this is supposed to do is simply find the specified PDF file and save it as a Plain Txt File.
Sub Convert_PDF_To_Text_File()
Dim AcroXApp As Object
Dim AcroXAVDoc As Object
Dim AcroXPDDoc As Object
Set AcroXApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
AcroXApp.Hide
Set AcroXAVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
AcroXAVDoc.Open strPDFPath, "Acrobat"
AcroXAVDoc.BringToFront
Set AcroXPDDoc = AcroXAVDoc.GetPDDoc
Dim jsObj As Object
Set jsObj = AcroXPDDoc.GetJSObject
jsObj.SaveAs strOutputFile, "com.adobe.acrobat.plain-text"
AcroXAVDoc.Close False
AcroXApp.Exit
End Sub

one other thought is that you can create text files with a batch process inside of acrobat. Advanced ---> Document Processing ----> Batch Processing.
Choose new sequence, give it a name
Step 1: Select Commands ----> Choose "execute javascript", then hit "Add." Click on "Execute Javascript" that was just added on the right, then hit the edit button and toss in the script below that I grabbed from the javascript samples (also, if your docs have multiple pages you'll need to embed the for loop into another for loop that cycles through each page). You'd also want to change the name of the saved txt file to the name of pdf you're doing it to. It shouldn't be that hard, but I'm guessing you're probably alot more familiar with VBA then javascript which is why you're choosing to do it from excel. I'm kind of in the same boat of having written a bunch of VBA, but not much javascript. I highly recommend investing some time into learning acrobat scripting b/c VB does have it's limitations when it comes to messing with PDF's.
* function to extract the text content of the current page and save to a file.
try {
var p = this.pageNum;
var n = this.getPageNumWords(p);
app.alert("Number of words in the page: " + n);
var str = "";
for(var i=0;i<n;i++) {
var wd = this.getPageNthWord(p, i, false);
if(wd != "") str = str + wd;
// save the string into a data object
this.createDataObject("whatever.txt",str);
// pop up a file selection box to export the data
this.exportDataObject("whatever.txt");
// clean up
this.removeDataObject("whatever.txt");
} catch (e) {
app.alert(e)

How to open report.pdf file? getting error message file cannot be previewed pdf preview handler

how can I open a report.pdf file that shows error: file cannot be previewed because of an error w/ pdf preview handler

Hi pfmercerville,
If you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (or Vista), you will find that your PDF files do not preview in Windows Explorer as they do in the 32-bit versions. Instead, all you see is a message stating that This file can’t be previewed. To enable this functionality on your 64-bit operating system, follow these steps.
1. Click the Orb (Start Button).
2. Go to the Search programs and files textbox and input regedit.
3. Select regedit.exe from the results.
4. When the UAC prompt appears, click the Yes button.
5. In the left pane of the Registry Editor, go to (and select): 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}
6. In the right pane, locate AppID.
7. Change AppID value to {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}.
8. Restart your computer for the change to take affect.
Regards,
Rave

Book pdf file

Does anyone know if once you send off a book to be ordered (and only order one) can you buy more books without having to send the book off again? I know they have a pdf file of the book once it gets where its going to be printed. Can they use that pdf file to print more books so you don't have to send it off again.
I've done a few books in the past but have only ever ordered one book.
I plan on ordering a soft bound book this time to make sure it is all right when I get it. I've run into some printing problems with the other books I've ordered. I need to make sure this one is correct before I order more.
Hope someone has an answer for me.
thanks
Mr. Lucy

No, as of now we have to reassemble the book and re-submit. There's a method that might work but I don't know as I've never tried it. When you order your first book, find and make a copy of the pdf file that iPhoto creates for uploading and printing. Then when you need to get another copy, make a phony book (doesn't even need photos in it) of the same number of pages, theme, size and cover. Then start the ordering process and pause just after the book has been assembled, find the new pdf file, copy it's name to your old pdf file and replace the new one with the renamed old one. Then continue with the ordering process. i've recommended this to others but have not seen any posts back. In theory is sounds good.
Here's how you find the pdf file:
How to Find the iPhoto Generated PDF File:
1 - Start the ordering process and stop after the book has been assembled and you get to the Order pane where you select the cover color, copies, etc.
2 - Go to the Finder and select the Go->Go to Folder menu item (CommandShiftG).
3 - copy the following, /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/iPhoto (for Panther the path is /private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/iPhoto ), and paste into the Go to Folder search box.
4 - the iPhoto folder will be brought up. In it will be the PDF file that was generated by iPhoto. You can copy it (Option-drag) to the Desktop to review and/or save.
Note: the iPhoto folder will not exist before you start the ordering process and is deleted after the order is completed or after you cancel the order and quit iPhoto.
The preceeding was developed on Tiger but should work with Panther.
OT

I have tried a lot to find an app or some way in email to attach multiple of pdf files in one email. I could not find anything that sends multiple pdf file in one email and still keeping the file in simple pdf format for the recipient.

I have tried a lot to find an app or some way in email to attach multiple of pdf files in one email. I could not find anything that sends multiple pdf file in one email and still keeping the file in simple pdf format for the recipient.

I am not aware of a way except for photos that allows you to select multiple files in an email. I even checked settings in the Adobe Reader app, and it does not show that ability.

How can I open a PDF file and enter a word in the Find field from the command line?

Hi,
I want to use a PDF file as the help file of another program.
I have found somewhere an incomplete description of the command line parameters of Acrobat Reader.
It described how to open a file and jump to its given page.
I have written the following batch file based on that.
rem Open pdf (prm1) with Acrobat reader at given page (prm2)
"%adobe_rdr%\AcroRd32.exe" /N "zoom=73&page=%2=OpenActions" %1
The following batch file opens the search dialog:
rem Open pdf (prm1) with Acrobat reader
rem and search for something (prm2)
"%adobe_rdr%\AcroRd32.exe" /N "zoom=73&navpanes=1=OpenActions&search=%2" %1
I need the simple find field instead of the complicated search window.
Regards
Ferenc

Not possible.

How do I find the path to a pdf file I have found in Spotlight?

I downloaded a pdf file, and a few days later couldn't remember where I put it on my HD.I found it easily using spotlight, but that brings up the file as a full pdf in Preview, and I can't see any way of finding the patrent folder, or the path to it, so I can find it again or move it. How do I do that?
Thanks,
Richard

I just found the answer myself - https://discussions.apple.com/message/17196624#17196624 .
I agree with the comments in that thread - not at all intuitive!
Richard

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