Compare PDF Docs in Preview (not sure were to post)

I need to compare to dumb PDF docs to look for changes that have been made. I was wondering if there is an "elegant" way to do this with preview. Not sure were to post this question. Thank you in advance for any help.

You mean a more elegant way than side-by-side?
You might try this compare utility. I haven't tested it myself and there are no reviews. It is also shareware but may allow a one-time to test.
Or this one which seems to ask for a donation of one buck.
-mj

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driddy61,
As of June 2014, none of the Adobe Reader mobile products support the hyperlink action for opening a separate PDF document.
Adobe Reader for iOS
Adobe Reader for Android
Adobe Reader Touch for Windows 8
In addition, the Reader mobile products do not open multiple windows/documents simultaneously, which would make the navigation between PDF documents nearly impossible. (Once a hyperlink takes you to a different PDF document, you have no way to go back to the original PDF document.)
The only Adobe Reader product that fulfills your department's requirements is Adobe Reader XI (mostly for Windows/Mac desktop/laptop computers). Acrobat Pro and Standard are paid products.
Because you are in search of a less expensive device for your department, you could get a Windows tablet instead of a Windows desktop/laptop computer. Microsoft Surface Pro (that you've mentioned in your previous reply) is just one example. You can also find other less expensive Windows tablets.
Tablets
However, please keep in mind that there are two different types of Windows tablets running two different operating systems.
(a) A Windows tablet with an Intel-based processor running Windows 8.1 Pro
Example: Surface Pro 3
You can install and run traditional desktop apps (e.g. Adobe Reader XI) and new Windows Store apps ("Modern" or "Metro-style" apps).
(b) A Windows tablet with an ARM-based processor running Windows RT 8.1
Example: Surface 2
You can only install and run Windows Store apps (e.g. Adobe Reader Touch) but not traditional desktop apps like Adobe Reader XI.
In general, type (b) tablets are more affordable than type (a) tablets. However, if you want to run Adobe Reader XI, you do need to check the technical specification of each tablet and make sure the following conditions are met.
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Unable to compare PDFs docs that have had security

Unable to compare PDFs docs that have had security.
Even when I own the documents and remove the security manually - this is a serious bug for CS5 - has anyone found a way around this?

Did you get any error message?

Can't combine two PDF doc in Preview and save under different title.

I regularly used Preview to combine two scanned pages into a single document and them save them under a different name using "Save As..." With Lion I get a unhappy run-around within Versions and can't save the combined document. I wound up placing the two files in folder and zipping it for transmission via Mail. What is the procedure under Lion with Versions, or how do I disable Versions? I can track my documents quite adequately without Versions.
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See post in this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3437156?start=0&tstart=0
You can combine PDFs directly in Preview, but the interface is a little tricksy.
First open the sidebar in Preview. If your existing PDF has only one page, there will be just that one thumbnail.
The key is to drag new files onto this thumbnail/icon, not below it. If you drag below it you'll just show two separate docs in the same preview window-- but if you drag on top onto it it will highlight and the two files will combine. Then you can hit save.

Compare PDF Docs From The Command Line

Hi All,
I love the compare PDF that you get in Adboe professional - Its awesome.
Does anyone know if you can script this to diff an entire folder of pdfs?
I m happy to program this but do not know where to start / where the API is and whether it is possible
Thanks

Thanks Aandi - Very helpfull
You mentioned: based on scripting through OLE and JavaScript
How exactly do you do this though :( - Where is the DOM API? What are the methods available?
Hoe else can you compare PDFs in a bulk fashion with the output being as good as Adobes?
I have adobe distiller s well if thats helpful

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I'm trying to combine screenshots into one pdf file. I clicked on the side bar button and dragged the files I wanted into the side bar and then saved this as a pdf file. It showed it as saving all the pages but when I closed it and reopened it, it had only one file. (It was now opened in Adobe Reader). Why is it not saving it as a combined file?
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External hard drive, sharing, itunes? Not sure where to post this?

sorry guys but i'm not sure where this belongs, but anyway. I just bought my macbook and purchased a Western Digital harddrive ( external ) anyway I have like 80gigs of pics and music and want to get it from my iPod back onto the computer. Not a problem............My problem is that I can't put it directly onto the external drive I first need to put it on the macbook then transfer it to the externak hardrive. When I do this is winds up on my mac HD and also on my external hardrive. I only want it in one place. Ok, my ultimate goal right now is to buy an iMac which I'm doing this weekend. Got rid of my PC's ( Go Apple !) LOL. I want to put all my music ,videos,pics, movies on the external hardrive and be able to share it with both my Macbook and my imac. I simply want to be able to access my everything from both pc's but get it all from the EHD. Right now it's all on my macbook and I want to free up the space, plus learn how to do it for the future. Sorry to ramble. So far I've posted a few times and someone always comes through. Everyone here is awesome, it's like another planet compared to the PC world.
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Put your iTunes folder on the eternal hard drive, and make a alias to it from your home directory on the MacBook (Cmd-L). Do the same when you get the iMac.
I didn't quite get how the two computers are sharing the hard drive, or maybe you'll put the hard drive on the iMac and share the library. There's a lot of ways to make this work. You made a good decision.

Template Bug? Not sure where to post. I have a sample.

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blah blah" even though you did not make changes to uneditable
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http://localhost), treat it as a
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2. Create a template with 1 editable region: EditRegion3
3. Create a page using the template.
4. Enter in a <form> </form>tag and some text.
5. Select Put for the file.
Works fine at this point.
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2. Select put.
3. The InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" tag turns
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6. Select Put.
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I attached both versions. By the way, I was able to "fix" the
broken edit region by closing (not saving changes) and reopening
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Put works with no error message.

So lemme understand this. If you hack a page so that it
contains invalid
code, you get a template error? Is that a surprise?
Anyhow, there are several workarounds, and I see that you
have found one.
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> It seems that Dreamweaver 2004 MX (version 7.0.1 on
Windows XP) gets
> confused
> if you create a page with invalid HTML. I've seen some
other posts on
> this, but
> I'm not sure if it's been fixed.
>
> If you do the following, you'll get the popup warning
"You have made
> changes
> to code that is not marked as editable.. blah blah blah"
even though you
> did
> not make changes to uneditable regions.
>
> 1. Make a remote site with a local web directory. On my
machine, I run
> Apache
> (
http://localhost), treat it as a
remote site, and copy files to Apache's
> local
> directory.
> 2. Create a template with 1 editable region: EditRegion3
> 3. Create a page using the template.
> 4. Enter in a <form> </form>tag and some
text.
> 5. Select Put for the file.
>
> Works fine at this point.
>
> To invoke the bug:
> 1. Remove the </form> tag.
> 2. Select put.
> 3. The InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" tag
turns color: from gray
> to
> black.
> 4. Close and reopen the file.
> 5. Make a minor edit.
> 6. Select Put.
> 7. Presto - warning dialogue shows.
>
> I attached both versions. By the way, I was able to
"fix" the broken edit
> region by closing (not saving changes) and reopening the
file, adding back
> the
> missing </form> and saving. Then Put works with no
error message.
>
>
>
> // VALID HTML
>
> //////////////////////
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> 
> <title>Admin - Image Upload</title>
> 
> 
> 
> </head>
>
> <body>
> 
>
> <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
> <table>
> <tr><td>Image
File</td><td><input type="file"
name="FileName"></td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="2"><input type="submit"
name="Submit"></td></tr>
> </table>
> </form>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> // INVALID HTML
>
> //////////////////
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> 
> <title>Admin - Image Upload</title>
> 
> 
> 
> </head>
>
> <body>
> 
>
> <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
> <table>
> <tr><td>Image
File</td><td><input type="file"
name="FileName"></td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="2"><input type="submit"
name="Submit"></td></tr>
> </table>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>

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If you have WiFi or cellular data turned on this can improve the accuracy of GPS, because the GPS receiver can then use the known location of cell towers and WiFi networks to refine the GPS location. GPS by itself has an accuracy of 10 meters, or about 34 feet. Using the additional information from WiFi and cellular data this can be brought down to 3 meters (10 feet). This mode is called Augmented GPS, or A-GPS.

Not sure whether to post this under iMac display or iPhoto...

I don't know what's the problem, so I'll try here first.
I have a brand new (2 days old) 2.4GHz iMac with 1GB RAM.
First: A stuck pixel appeared yesterday - only the second day after I'd set the thing up. I fixed it today with JScreenFix, and I don't think it's come back yet... is this normal? Stuck pixels right out of the box?
Second: Today, I was editing a picture in iPhoto and at some point, I tried adjusting the contrast and the computer froze. So I pressed the power button to put it to sleep, waited for the computer to go to sleep, woke it back up and tried again. It worked for a minute and froze again, so I put it back to sleep and woke it back up. I tried one more time and the picture I was working - a photo that was captured in black and white - turned bright pink (screenshot). That scared me, and I put the computer back to sleep. A minute later I pressed the return key to wake it up, and a bunch of horizontal grey and black lines appeared on the screen (photo). When I looked at it closely, I saw there were a bunch of colored pixels in there as well (photo). I heard the sound of me signing on to iChat, which was weird, because I have it set to log me out when I put it to sleep and ask for a password when I wake it back up.
By this point, I was sort of freaked out. I put the computer back to sleep again and woke it back up. I logged in fine, but then I realized my Dock was missing the "shelf." (Screenshot, Photo 1, Photo 2)
I turned off the computer and tried to reset the PRAM. I got two startup chimes, but then it got stuck at the grey screen. After ten minutes I finally had to hold down the power button to turn it off, and then I turned it back on.
It's working okay now, but I'm wondering if this is a software issue (something's wrong with iPhoto?), or maybe a driver issue? My iMac is totally up to date... Has this happened to anyone else? Should I call tech support?
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If the pic in iPhoto has a GreyScale colour profile, then convert it to RGB and you’ll have no problems with it. Iphoto supports only RGB pics - cameras, after all, shoot RGB. You can convert the pic to an RGB profile using the Tools menu in Preview. (Tip: use sRGB).
I’ve yet to hear of Sleeping a Mac as a solution for anything. I would have restarted.
Regards
TD

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1)
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Not sure where to post please direct

I have a document that I would like to copy cut and paste into an email.
Everytime I paste it is automatically double spaced and a pain to edit to single spacing.
I have checked the default settings and they are all single.
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