PDF Studio Knowledge Base

Versions

• Download PDF Studio Version 2018 (Previous Version)
• What’s New in PDF Studio 2019
• PDF Studio 2019 Change Log
• Upgrade to PDF Studio 2019
• How to get my free upgrade to PDF Studio 2019

Video

• Optimize PDF in PDF Studio (Video)
• Assemble PDF Documents (4 Videos)
• PDF Studio 7 Introduction Video
• Video: Digitally Sign PDF Documents
• Video: Split PDF documents

Installation / Registration

• Setting preferences for all users on a machine such as disabling software updates
• Add a User to my license
• Connecting a scanner on Linux
• Licensing PDF Studio in Terminal Server Environment such as Citrix
• Unregister PDF Studio through command-line

FAQ

• What is PDF/UA or ADA Compliance
• PDF Studio Available On More Platforms & Devices Than Any Other PDF Editor!
• Okular PDF Reader Alternative for Linux / Ubuntu / Unix
• Evince PDF Reader Alternative for Linux / Ubuntu / Unix
• Export and import all stamps when migrating to a new computer

How To

• Deleting Layers in a PDF Document
• How can I export the highlighted text in a PDF to a file
• How to Create a Web Link that Opens a PDF File to Specific Page
• Create a PDF Destination and add Web, PDF or Bookmark Link
• Anonymizing Annotations & Comments in PDFs

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

Troubleshooting

• How to set up your scanner to work with Sane and PDF Studio under Fedora 27 Linux’s systemd
• How to fix the issue with blank pages for PDFs created with ScanSnap on macOS Sierra
• “Access is denied” when saving documents
• Unable to rearrange / move pages within a PDF due to document permissions
• Troubleshooting errors with Save / Save As in PDF Studio

Operating Systems

• Chromebook

• Crostini

• Windows

• macOS - Mac OSX

• Linux

• Raspberry Pi

• Unix

• PDF Reader / PDF Annotator / PDF Editor for Chromebook
• Edit / Annotate PDFs on Windows 10 and Surface Pro Tablets
• Use PDF Studio on different computers and operating systems

Articles

• Okular PDF Reader Alternative for Linux / Ubuntu / Unix
• Evince PDF Reader Alternative for Linux / Ubuntu / Unix
• Best Free PDF Reader for macOS and Mac OSX (Better than Preview)
• PDF to HTML5/SVG Conversion Comparison
• Output Preview and Overprint Simulation

Annotating PDFs

• Export / Import

• Rotating Text Boxes and Shape Annotations
• Free PDF Reader with Annotations (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Create text highlight annotations in multiple colors
• Search Web Links and Create Link Annotations in a PDF Automatically
• How to export PDF markups and annotations into FDF/XFDF

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

• 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
• Choosing Colors for Overlay PDF Comparison

Content Editing

• How to change the color of a PDF
• Using Edit Content Tool as Fallback to Cursor Editing
• New Inline text content editing with reflow
• How to fix a corrupted PDF document
• Adding vertical text to a PDF page

Converting PDFs

• 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
• Option to export all images in a PDF document as image files
• Convert Excel to PDF on Windows, Mac, Linux using PDF Software
• Free solutions to convert PDF to Word in Windows, Mac and Linux

Creating PDFs

• Drag and drop thumbnails to create new PDF documents on the fly from PDF Studio
• Convert Excel to PDF on Windows, Mac, Linux using PDF Software
• Convert PDF to Fast Web View
• Convert Images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, or TIFF) to PDF
• Creation of PDF files on Windows, Mac or Linux using PDF Studio

Customization

• PDF Studio 2018 Introduces New Ribbon Toolbar
• Create incremental dynamic text stamps
• Un-grouping tools on toolbar
• Set a document to open in full screen mode
• Restore last page and view when reopening a PDF

Document Services

• 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”
• Sharepoint Login

Digital Signatures

• New “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
• “Select a smart card device” error message when launching PDF Studio
• How to setup USB Smart Card Hardware PKCS11 signing on Mac

Fonts

• Fonts not showing up in annotation text properties list
• How to manually install fonts on Linux and identify missing fonts
• Non-Latin characters in form fields
• Unicode characters
• Default CJK fonts used by PDF Studio when not embedded

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

• Set field calculation order
• Simple example to add custom JavaScript calculations to form fields in a PDF
• Create a toggle checkbox to show and hide fields in a PDF form using Javascript
• Sending email with PDF form data file and custom email subject
• Free PDF Reader With Form Filling (Windows, Mac, Linux)

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 scanned PDF page in half (into two pages)
• Appending documents to a PDF
• Remove all blank pages from one or multiple PDFs (including dirty scanned pages)
• How to Rearrange, Join, and Split PDF Pages and Documents
• Splitting by Blank Pages in Demo Mode

OCR

• New Fix Scan Tool
• How to manually install OCR languages
• “Discard invisible text” option in PDF Studio
• OCR two different languages at once
• Could not initialize tesseract / OCRBridge when OCRing a document

Optimizing PDFs

• New Fix Scan Tool
• Generating results log when optimizing
• Optimize PDF in PDF Studio (Video)
• Keep text quality when optimizing scanned PDF documents
• Free ways to optimize PDFs and reduce file size on Windows, Mac and Linux

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 selected pages from the thumbnails pane directly
• Collated printing in PDF Studio
• “No print service found” on MAC
• Duplex (Two-sided) printing from PDF Studio
• Output Preview and Overprint Simulation

Prepress / Preflight

• 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
• PDF/A verification and conversion

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

Scan-To-PDF

• New Linux scanning interface, including Scanning Profiles
• How to set up your scanner to work with Sane and PDF Studio under Fedora 27 Linux’s systemd
• “Image transfer failed” error when scanning
• Scanning profiles in PDF Studio
• Deskew (straighten) pages when scanning to PDF

Security

• 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
• How to make a PDF form non-editable

In the News

• PDF Editor Reviewed by Linux Magazine Italy
• File sharing broken after Security Update for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
• PCWorld Best PDF Editors of 2017: Great Review for Qoppa’s PDF editor!
• PDF Studio recommended as Adobe Acrobat Alternative by St Olaf College
• Why Redaction is BETTER than Pixelating or Blurring

General

• Send us Feedback about PDF Studio
• Troubleshooting PKCS11 Signing Errors on Linux, Mac
• Deleting Layers in a PDF Document
• Use PDF Studio to view PDF files in Mozilla Firefox
• Expand or Minimize the Ribbon in PDF Studio

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

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?
• Undo