PDF with movable parts.
I'm trying to create a PDF file with movable parts. I'm doing a research project where participants will try to match wallpaper to a specific room. I would like to have a PDF file that has wallpaper squares that can move around a hallway in another layer. Is it possible to do?
Thanks.
Possibly with either OCG (Optional Content Groups) or via a 3D PDF file. Depends on what you mean by the term "movable parts". Do you mean make them invisible? Do you mean actually make them move via JavaScript animation? If it is the former then that is OCG. If it is the later then that is 3D PDF. OCG is not a simple thing to do even with Acrobat. 3D PDF is also in the same realm of difficulty and perhaps more difficult because it means you need to have other software that can create specific 3D files that then can be imported into Acrobat or a third party software company's software called tetra4D ( http://www.tetra4d.com/ )
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Hi everyone,
Is it possible first to scan a paper document into Acrobat X Pro, and then to replace a "pane" or box within that PDF with a text or image file?
Would it require SDK and Javascript?
Thanks,
Rick WeinhausCtDave and others:
Here's the problem in more detail.
I am a physician and I already have the ability to incorporate paper-based
documents into an electronic health record (EHR) by scanning them and
saving them as PDFs. The documents are paper patient encounter forms with
a different box or 'pane' for each category of data. Each box has a fixed
location on the paper form.
There are three situations, however, where I want to have the option to
overwrite certain boxes of the PDF with data generated by methods other
than scanning.
1) Insert text macros with variable fields using the electronic health
record's software.
2) Insert a drawing available as a pre-existing JPG or generated by using a
tablet.
3) Insert text generated using Dragon Naturally Speaking.
For efficient office workflow, in all three cases the text or image to be
inserted into the box or 'pane' in the PDF needs to be generated while I am
still seeing the patient -- that is -- before the paper form has been
scanned and converted to a PDF.
The sticky note tool is one option, but I would want to be able to modify
the default size of the sticky note so that it corresponded exactly to the
size of the box it was 'overwriting.' I can't figure out how to do this?
Could it be done using scripting?
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Error "Failed to Export PDF" with big image on CS6 (32) and CC (64)
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I'm not a scripter. I searched the forum and found some info on this already, but not a working script including automatic pagenaming.
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http://www.techplex.net/postsm40018_possible-to-name-pages.html#post40018
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http://indesignsecrets.com/page-exporter-utility-peu-5-script-updated-for-cs3.php
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How do I import a PDF with typewriter objects?
I have a saved .pdf with text created by the typewriter tool. When I import the .pdf in InDesign (I'm using CS4), the typewriter text disappears in the InDesign document. I cannot find any preferences or settings in either Acrobat or InDesign that solves this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Text that is typed into a PDF file via the Typewriter Tool (anyone remember what a “typewriter” is?) is treated as an annotation just as cross-outs and highlights applied to existing text are.
InDesign (and Illustrator) only import the base PDF document, not annotations.
What you need to do is to flatten the annotations into the base document. This may be accomplished via executing a one line JavaScript will flatten all annotations / comments within a PDF file into the base document. This line of JavaScript is:
this.flattenPages();
This is documented in the JavaScript API Reference that is part of the Acrobat X SDK, freely downloadable from Adobe's web site.
This function is more fully documented in the PDF file I've attached to this posting.
After this process, the resultant PDF file will fully place within your InDesign (or Illustrator) document!
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I have a certain peice of information I'd like to delete from a PDF file. I can't crop it since it's in the middle of the document. I just want to delete this string of text from a scanned PDF file. Is this possible in Preview? Thanks!You can do a "screen Capture" which creates a .png file, and insert it where you want it, or just send this piece to whoever.
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> Is it possible to create a tagged PDF with Apple Pages?
Short answer: No, Apple chose at the introduction of Mac OS X to support only Adobe PDF 1.3 and those parts of Adobe PDF 1.4 that include device-independent transparency, but not those parts of Adobe PDF 1.4 that include Adobe XMP for XML markup of the page description program.
Long answer: Adobe PostScript is a page description programming language, unlike Xerox Interpress which is a page and document description programming language. In other words, Adobe PostScript is a streaming or sequential rendering model that cannot simulate the behaviour of a bound book where the user can turn from any one page to any other page arbitrarily. Adobe introduced Acrobat Distiller in 1993 in order to convert Adobe PostScript page description programs into Adobe PDF page and document description programs that share the same fundamental functionality as Xerox Interpress.
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ISO 19005:2011 is supposed to address the shortcomings by saving the UCS input into the PDF itself, but in this case it is impossible to use Adobe PostScript and Adobe Acrobat Distiller as intermediates to Adobe PDF. So in order to drive ISO 19005:2011 Adobe would have to ditch Adobe Acrobat. I am not sure if there is software that implements ISO 19005:2011, but I noted that the Apple iBook Store does not accept PDF at all. Personally, I struggle to think of how to explain to endusers the overwhelming number of Adobe ISO PDF formats (there is PDF/E, PDF/UA and whatever else), and the overwhelming number of Adobe ISO PDF versions of these formats (there is ISO 19005:2005, ISO 19005:2011, ISO 15930 all the way back to 1999/2000 in God knows how many versions at this point).
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Hi,
I have an issue with a PDF file created from Photoshop. The PDF file contains transparency settings.
When I create the PDF from Photoshop with a setting that flattens transparency (such as PDFX1a2001), the resulting PDF is flat and fairly small in size.
If I create the PDF from Photoshop with a setting that preserves transparency (such as High Quality Print), the file is also small in size. However, if I use this same PDF and flatten it, by printing it once more as a PDF with a setting such as PDFX1a2001 (PDF to PDF), the file becomes enormous. And Acrobat even rasterises embedded fonts which I don't understand!
I believe the problem has nothing to do with Photoshop, but Acrobat is the culprit (the same thing happened with Illustrator instead of Photoshop).
Has anybody come across a similar issue, and/or what do you suggest I try as a workaround?
Thanks.
PS: My initial goal was to use the PDF with the transparency as a watermark into a second PDF and then flatten the resulting PDF into a new PDF. This last, flat, PDF becomes very large in size and even has fonts rasterised.
But the problem can be isolated to the operation of flattening the PDF containing transparency, as described above.
Update:
The problem described occurred with Acrobat Distiller 9.0.0.
I tried using Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0, and that worked! The watermark with transparency got embedded in the pdf, and the resulting pdf had a standard file size. I do see a very thin border around the watermark however which appears and disappears depending on the zoom.
1- Any solution on how to fix this problem for Acrobat Distiller 9.0.0?
2- Is the thin border appearing around the watermark (with Distiller 8) an artifact or will it be seen on print?hi, I've just come across this looking for an answer to a related issue. You may have already found your answers, 1 year later, but in case you're still curious:
the small hairlines around the flattened watermark are what Adobe calls "atomic regions." For transparent type, or any vector shape with a transparency effect (e.g. drop shadow) to be flattened into the artwork behind it, it needs to be rastered into a bitmap to burn it into a single object. The atomic regions are small slices of image where that vector-bitmap rastering happened. In virtually all cases you will not see that in print. (If you zoom in and it gets larger, then you may. It typically stays the same size or disappears.)
There's a host of settings in both versions of Acrobat (more in 9) wherein you can determine how much "extra" information gets carried into your file. Even after flattening within Acrobat, you can still optimize the file size by tossing all of that extra info. (go to Help menu and enter Reduce File Size)
What I suspect is happening is, when outputting a flattened X-1a from Photoshop, it's taking care of rastering the watermark into the image, creating a flattened file. (this is assuming you're not applying the watermark in Acrobat.) This is a single bitmap image.
If you're flattening say, an X-4 (unflattened) PDF with live transparency, or burning in an Acrobat watermark, Acrobat is creating more than a couple atomic regions (likely very many). These are several bitmap images, probably along with some other vector type—even if the glyphs stay vector (no transparency affecting them) they are no longer type, but vector objects, if any other part of the copy was rasterized. Acrobat may even be doing you the favor of keeping the text it converted in an invisible layer above the image. (It does this with OCR conversions.)
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I get supplied hundreds of PDFs which each contain a stock code, but the PDFs themselves are not named consistantly, or they are supplied as multi-page PDFs.
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It would work like this in an ideal world:
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I'm struggling with part 3!
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Currently the regex pattern is set to:
/HB-.._[0-9]{6}/
which means HB- followed by two characters and _ and 6 digits.
Minimally tested under 10.6.8.
Hope this may help,
H
_main()
on _main()
script o
property aa : choose file with prompt ("Choose pdf files.") of type {"com.adobe.pdf"} ¬
default location (path to desktop) with multiple selections allowed
set my aa's beginning to choose folder with prompt ("Choose destination folder.") ¬
default location (path to desktop)
set args to ""
repeat with a in my aa
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end repeat
considering numeric strings
if (system info)'s system version < "10.9" then
set ruby to "/usr/bin/ruby"
else
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end if
end considering
do shell script ruby & " <<'EOF' - " & args & "
require 'osx/cocoa'
include OSX
require_framework 'PDFKit'
outdir = ARGV.shift.chomp('/')
ARGV.select {|f| f =~ /\\.pdf$/i }.each do |f|
url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(f)
doc = PDFDocument.alloc.initWithURL(url)
path = doc.documentURL.path
pcnt = doc.pageCount
(0 .. (pcnt - 1)).each do |i|
page = doc.pageAtIndex(i)
page.string.to_s =~ /HB-.._[0-9]{6}/
name = $&
unless name
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end
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unless doc1.writeToFile(\"#{outdir}/#{name}.pdf\")
puts \"failed to save page #{i + 1} of #{path}\"
end
end
end
EOF"
end script
tell o to run
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Regrads,
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You can use OpenOffice.org, running as a server and command it remotely for document convertion.
Besides HTML to PDF, there are also possible other convertions:
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xls --> pdf, html, csv
ppt --> pdf, swf
Code example:
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FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File("c:/test.html"));
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(new File("c:/test.pdf"));
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OfficeFile f = new OfficeFile(fis,"localhost","8100", true);
f.convert(fos,"pdf");
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**EDIT**
It will build if mupdf doesn't have it's static libs stripped, but it does not solve the issue:
error: could not load plugin /usr/lib/zathura/pdf.so (/usr/lib/zathura/pdf.so: undefined symbol: opj_stream_destroy)
which I believe is part of openjpeg.
I posted in the zathura thread as mlq is active in the forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1341996
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