Tag Archives: PDF

okular: export annotations in the PDF file

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Thomas Cokelaer

One open source software to add annotations under Linux is okular (https://okular.kde.org/). One can add annotations easily (go to Tools, tick review, or just type F6). Then, it is time to save your document or to send it to a … Continue reading →

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How to generate a PDF reference of an R package

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

If you have the Rd files in a man directory, then in a shell command, you can use this command: R CMD Rd2dvi –pdf –title=’Test of foo’ -o /tmp/foo.pdf man/*.RdR CMD Rd2dvi –pdf –title=’Test of foo’ -o /tmp/foo.pdf man/*.Rd

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pdf2ps font issues

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

Sometimes, when converting a PDF file to a PS file using ps2pdf, some fuzzy fonts may appear. A solution is to provide the fonts within the documents by using: pdf2ps -dEmbedAllFonts=true <input> <output>pdf2ps -dEmbedAllFonts=true <input> <output>

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Convert documents into PDF with conv2pdf

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

Sometimes, you want to convert a document into a PDF and there is no such options in you preferred software. For instance, in OpenOffice you have the save option as PDF, so there is no problem here. However, in some … Continue reading →

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