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New Features

  • What’s New in PDF Studio 2024
  • What’s New in PDF Studio 2023
  • New Multithreaded Tile Factory for up to 6x Performance Boost in Rendering Documents
  • New Features Released Since My Version
  • Video: Output Preview and Color Separation

Versions

  • Download PDF Studio Version 2023 (Previous Version)
  • Get a Free Upgrade to PDF Studio Pro 2024
  • What’s New in PDF Studio 2024
  • PDF Studio 2023 Change Log
  • Download PDF Studio Version 2022 (Previous Version)

Installation / Registration

  • Senior Discount for PDF Editor
  • PDF Editor for macOS / Mac OS X
  • Qoppa’s PDF Editor Now Available on NixOS Linux Distribution
  • X11GraphicsEnvironment error when installing PDF Studio as root on Linux
  • License Key Management for Volume (Multi Users / Multi Key) Licenses

FAQ

  • Senior Discount for PDF Editor
  • PDF Studio Available On More Platforms & Devices Than Any Other PDF Editor!
  • PDF Studio User Guide – Japanese
  • PDF Studio User Guide – Portuguese
  • Sending PDF files to Microsoft OneNote from PDF Studio

How To

  • Video: Convert PDF to Word
  • Video: Create Table of Contents from PDF Bookmarks
  • Video: Document Session Manager
  • Video: Add Comment Summary when Printing
  • Video: Allow Data Entry in PDF Stamps

Troubleshooting

  • Jaggedy Ugly Fonts in PDF Studio on Arch Linux & Manjaro KDE
  • Error opening documents from Dropbox “Received fatal alert: protocol_version”
  • “Com Surrogate has stopped working” error on Windows 7
  • Icons not scaling correctly on Manjaro OS running 4k
  • Missing Text / Fonts in PDF Studio on Arch Linux & Manjaro KDE

Operating Systems

  • Chromebook

  • Windows

  • macOS - Mac OSX

  • Linux

  • Raspberry Pi

  • Unix

  • PDF Studio, PDF Converter PDF Editor for macOS 13 Ventura
  • Use PDF Studio on different computers and operating systems

Articles

  • Perpetual License for a PDF Editor vs. Subscription License
  • PDF Studio, PDF Converter PDF Editor for macOS 13 Ventura
  • PDF Studio Featured on PC World Magazine
  • PDF Studio Placed at #1 on Technastic’s 5 Best PDF Editors for Linux List
  • CVE-2021-44228 – Apache Log4j Vulnerability

Awards

  • PDF Studio Receives SourceForge Winter 2022 Category Leader Award
  • PDF Studio receives SourceForge Leader Award
  • Crozdesk awards PDF Studio Quality Choice Award

Annotating PDFs

  • Export / Import

  • How to filter comments in a PDF document
  • How to unflatten annotations
  • How to export PDF markups and annotations into CSV and Excel
  • Anonymize Comments & Markups (Remove author, subject, date, history)
  • Rotating Text Boxes and Shape Annotations

Batch Processing

  • Action Wizard to Automate Multiple Tasks on PDFs
  • How Do I Add a Watermark to a Batch of PDF Documents?

Bookmarks

  • Use Previous / Next View to navigate back or forward in a PDF document
  • Create a PDF Destination and add Web, PDF or Bookmark Link
  • Split a PDF so that the split files are named using the bookmark names
  • How to print bookmarks in a PDF document
  • How to create bookmarks with PDF Studio

Comparing PDFs

  • How do I view two PDF documents at the same time?
  • Enhanced PDF Overlay Comparison
  • How to scroll one document at a time when comparing PDFs side by side
  • Using Side by Side PDF Comparison
  • How to Compare PDF Documents with PDF Studio

Content Editing

  • Easy Tools to Add Content Objects on PDF Page
  • Alignment options when moving content objects
  • How to change the color of a PDF
  • Using Edit Content Tool as Fallback to Cursor Editing
  • Inline text content editing with text reflow

Converting PDFs

  • How to Convert PDF to Word with Office 365 from PDF Studio
  • How can I Convert Several Excel Sheets as a Single PDF?
  • How to extract a table in a PDF to CSV & Excel
  • Convert text file to PDF with page breaks / new pages / support for character 12 form feed
  • How to combine multiple files into a single PDF

Creating PDFs

  • Easy Tools to Add Content Objects on PDF Page
  • Video: How to Convert an Excel Sheet Into a PDF using PDF Studio
  • Error Adding Images – no such file or directory – when scanning on Linux
  • Video: How to Convert a Word Document into a PDF using PDF Studio
  • Video: How to Convert a PowerPoint File Into a PDF using PDF Studio

Customization

  • Gray / Monochrome Icons Options with Dark & Light Theme
  • New Ribbon Toolbar versus Old Classic Toolbar & Menu
  • Create incremental dynamic text stamps
  • Un-grouping tools on toolbar
  • Set a document to open in full screen mode

Document Services

  • Error opening documents from Dropbox “Received fatal alert: protocol_version”
  • Split a scanned PDF page in half (into two pages)
  • Login to Google Docs – 2 factor authentication
  • Google Docs error 403.4 SSL required
  • Google Docs “files must be uploaded using the resumable upload mechanism”

Digital Signatures

  • How to solve “Signature hash will not fit in allotted space. Increase timestamp server length estimate” error
  • What Timestamp Servers to Use when Signing PDF Documents
  • “Fast Sign” Signature Stamps
  • Creating Self-Signed Digital IDs for signing PDF documents
  • How to Avoid Adobe Appearance Integrity Report To Show Digital Signature as Invalid

Fonts

  • Jaggedy Ugly Fonts in PDF Studio on Arch Linux & Manjaro KDE
  • Font Replacement / Substitution Defaults when Converting to PDF & PDF/A
  • Undefined Chinese Japanese and Korean Characters under PDF Bookmarks
  • Missing Text / Fonts in PDF Studio on Arch Linux & Manjaro KDE
  • Fonts not showing up in properties list

Header / Footer / Watermarks

  • How to avoid overlap between a header / footer and the page content in a PDF
  • Adding Watermarks to PDFs
  • Adding Headers & Footers to PDFs
  • Bates Numbering in PDF Studio
  • How to add page numbers in a PDF document

Interactive Forms

  • Make a PDF form field change text to uppercase while typing using a JavaScript action
  • XFA Forms Deprecated in PDF 2.0
  • Simple example of JavaScript to calculate time difference in a PDF in hours and minutes
  • How Do I Size Form Fields when Designing an Interactive Form?
  • How to create a button in a PDF form to send an email with form attached

Layers

  • How to change the color of a PDF
  • Deleting Layers in a PDF Document
  • Import PDF document as a layer
  • How to add comments to a specific layer in PDF Studio
  • Create a new layer in a PDF document

Merge / Split

  • Split a PDF Document using Advanced Options
  • How Do I Create a PDF Document from Image Files that are Already Scanned?
  • Append multiple documents to current PDF document
  • Split a scanned PDF page in half (into two pages)
  • Appending documents to a PDF

OCR

  • How Do I OCR PDF Documents in PDF Studio?
  • Video: How to OCR a PDF in PDF Studio
  • Fix Scan Tool
  • How to manually install OCR languages
  • “Discard invisible text” option in PDF Studio

Optimizing PDFs

  • How Can I Reduce the File Size of Documents using PDF Studio
  • Fix Scan Tool
  • Generating results log when optimizing
  • Video: Optimize PDF in PDF Studio
  • Keep text quality when optimizing scanned PDF documents

Page Manipulation Crop / Rotation

  • Label Pages using Roman Numerals, AlphaNumerics and other Styles in PDF Studio
  • How to Resize Pages in a PDF document using PDF Studio for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Move, Cut, Copy, and Paste PDF Pages using the thumbnail pane
  • Rotate Pages

PDF Format

  • Standard PDF Tag Types
  • Why doesn’t PDF Cropping change the file size of the PDF?
  • Standard 14 PDF Fonts

PDF Reader

  • Vote for PDF Studio Viewer as the best Linux PDF Reader on slant.co

PDF Sub Formats

  • PDF Studio Accessibility Reading Features
  • PDF Studio Support for PDF User Accessibility (PDF/UA)
  • What is PDF/UA or ADA Compliance
  • How can you tell if a PDF document has any transparency?
  • How to embed fonts in a PDF document

Printing PDFs

  • Option to Print As Image under Print dialog
  • Split Print button to switch between PDF Studio Print dialog & native OS Print dialog
  • Option to print selected pages from the thumbnails pane directly
  • Collated printing in PDF Studio
  • “No print service found” on MAC

Prepress / Preflight

  • Clear PDF/A Tag from blue PDF/A banner
  • Advanced PDF Imposition & Printer Marks
  • How can you tell if a PDF document has any transparency?
  • Output Preview and Overprint Simulation
  • Comparison of PDF/A Tools: User/ Desktop/ Developer / SDK

Redacting PDFs

  • Why Redaction is BETTER than Pixelating or Blurring
  • Redacting Form Fields and Annotations in a PDF
  • Checking if Your PDF Document is Redacted Correctly
  • How to Properly Redact a PDF on Windows, Mac or Linux
  • What is PDF Redaction?

Text Markups

  • Turn On / Turn Off Copy Text Option in Text Highlights & Text Markups
  • Mac Preview text highlights / markups not being displayed
  • Remove “Bubble” / Sticky Note Icon next to Text Markups
  • My Comments & Recent Comments Tool Chest
  • Replace Text and Insert Text Caret Annotations

Touch Mode

  • Changing the toolbar icon sizes
  • Touch Mode for Tablets Including the Windows Surface!
  • Change Menu Font Sizes on Windows Surface Pro
  • How to tab through PDF Interactive Form Fields on Windows 8 & Windows 10 Touch Screens
  • Edit / Annotate PDFs on Windows 10 and Surface Pro Tablets

Scan-To-PDF

  • Error from Scanner – No Suitable Image Found – when Scanning on macOS 11 and earlier versions
  • Error Adding Images – no such file or directory – when scanning on Linux
  • Duplex (2-sided) scanning on Linux in Scan-to-PDF
  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in Linux
  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in MAC

Security

  • CVE-2021-44228 – Apache Log4j Vulnerability
  • How to set document permissions so that other people cannot edit my JavaScript
  • “The signature contains a timestamp (…) that is not trusted” displays on signature validation status dialog
  • Is there a way to set an expiration date on a PDF document?
  • PDF digital signatures validation status

Videos

  • Video: Output Preview and Color Separation
  • Video: Enhanced Comments Pane
  • Video: Convert PDF to Word
  • Video: Create Table of Contents from PDF Bookmarks
  • Video: Document Session Manager

In the News

  • PDF Studio Receives SourceForge Winter 2022 Category Leader Award
  • PDF Studio, PDF Converter PDF Editor for macOS 13 Ventura
  • PDF Studio Featured on PC World Magazine
  • PDF Studio Placed at #1 on Technastic’s 5 Best PDF Editors for Linux List
  • PDF Studio Reviewed by Popular Financial & Business Product Review Site FinancesOnline

General

  • Digitally Signing PDFs on Mac and Linux
  • Incorrect PDF filename shown on the frame title and tab header
  • Adobe Acrobat Price Increase – PDF Studio Now an Even Better Choice!
  • PDF Studio, PDF Converter PDF Editor for macOS 13 Ventura
  • Convert PDF to Word without Office Installed (Pro)

Customer Feedback

  • Features present in PDF Studio lacking in Adobe Acrobat XI
  • Excellent Adobe Acrobat alternative for Mac
  • PDF Studio is the only Linux PDF Viewer with “Print Current View” for printing PDF documents

Archive

  • PDF Studio, PDF Creator & PDF Editor for macOS Sierra 10.12
  • PDF Studio 11 Change Log
  • PDF Studio, PDF Editor for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
  • How to resolve Java SE 6 runtime message on Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite & 10.11 El Capitan
  • PDF Studio is working well on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Misc

  • Set a document to open in full screen mode
  • Restore last page and view when reopening a PDF
  • 4K Monitor Support (High DPI Displays)
  • Is PDF Studio vulnerable as a Java application?
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