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New Features

  • NEW Modern UI with Light & Dark Modes
  • NEW Vertical Comments Pane
  • NEW Move content objects to front or to back in PDF Studio
  • NEW Append multiple documents to current document
  • NEW Annotation Quick Color Picker

Versions

  • PDF Editor New Year Sale Discount
  • Download PDF Studio Version 2019 (Previous Version)
  • Upgrade to PDF Studio 2020
  • PDF Studio 2020 Change Log
  • What’s New in PDF Studio 2020

Installation / Registration

  • License Key Management for Volume (Multi Users / Multi Key) Licenses
  • Mac: Invalid Checksum Error on Update Install
  • Where can I find PDF Studio Installer (install4j) Logs?
  • PDF Studio installer hangs on license agreement dialog
  • The installer for PDF Studio Standard and PDF Studio Pro

FAQ

  • Sending PDF files to Microsoft OneNote from PDF Studio
  • How to set the thumbnail / pages pane to be open by default
  • Checkbox displays other characters when filling forms
  • How to set the background color in Reading Mode
  • Text highlight opaque issue

How To

  • Sending PDF files to Microsoft OneNote from PDF Studio
  • How to set the thumbnail / pages pane to be open by default
  • Deleting Layers in a PDF Document
  • NEW export highlighted text from PDF
  • How to Create a Web Link that Opens a PDF File to Specific Page

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

  • Fixed! Error loading PDF The Native component cannot be removed then re-added to a component hierarchy
  • Text highlight opaque issue
  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in Linux
  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in MAC
  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in Windows

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

Awards

  • PDF Studio receives SourceForge Leader Award
  • Crozdesk awards PDF Studio Quality Choice Award

Annotating PDFs

  • Export / Import

  • NEW How to export PDF markups and annotations into CSV and Excel
  • NEW Anonymize Comments & Markups (Remove author, subject, date, history)
  • Rotating Text Boxes and Shape Annotations
  • Free PDF Reader with Annotations (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • Create text highlight annotations in multiple colors

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

  • NEW Alignment options when moving content objects
  • 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

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

  • What Timestamp Servers to Use when Signing PDF Documents
  • 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

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

  • NEW How to create a button that will send an email with PDF form attached
  • 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

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

  • NEW Append multiple documents to current document
  • 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

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

  • NEW Option to Print As Image under print dialog
  • NEW 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

Scan-To-PDF

  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in Linux
  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in MAC
  • Troubleshooting scanning problems in Windows
  • 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

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

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

In the News

  • PDF Studio receives SourceForge Leader Award
  • Crozdesk awards PDF Studio Quality Choice Award
  • 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!

General

  • Scan 2-sided document to PDF using a non-duplex scanner with PDF Studio
  • License Key Management for Volume (Multi Users / Multi Key) Licenses
  • PDF Editor New Year Sale Discount
  • NEW Modern UI with Light & Dark Modes
  • Opening PDF File Attachments on Chrome OS

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 11 Change Log
  • How to resolve Java SE 6 runtime message on Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite & 10.11 El Capitan

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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Recent Entries

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  • Scan 2-sided document to PDF using a non-duplex scanner with PDF Studio
  • License Key Management for Volume (Multi Users / Multi Key) Licenses
  • Mac: Invalid Checksum Error on Update Install
  • Fixed! Error loading PDF The Native component cannot be removed then re-added to a component hierarchy

Popular Entries

  • How to make a PDF form non-editable
  • PDF Studio 2020 Change Log
  • PDF Studio 2019 Change Log
  • LiveCycle Dynamic XFA forms
  • Split a scanned PDF page in half (into two pages)
  • How to embed fonts in a PDF document
  • How to Create a Web Link that Opens a PDF File to Specific Page
  • How to add page numbers in a PDF document
  • Remove all blank pages from one or multiple PDFs (including dirty scanned pages)
  • How to create an interactive date field with a date picker in a PDF document

Categories

  • New Features
  • Versions
  • Installation / Registration
  • FAQ
  • How To
  • Touch Mode
  • Troubleshooting
  • Operating Systems
    • Chromebook
    • Crostini
    • Windows
    • macOS – Mac OSX
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Unix
  • Articles
  • Awards
  • Annotating PDFs
    • Export / Import
  • Bookmarks
  • Comparing PDFs
  • Content Editing
  • Converting PDFs
  • Creating PDFs
  • Customization
  • Document Services
  • Digital Signatures
  • Fonts
  • Header / Footer / Watermarks
  • Interactive Forms
  • Layers
  • Merge / Split
  • OCR
  • Optimizing PDFs
  • Page Manipulation Crop / Rotation
  • PDF Format
  • PDF Reader
  • PDF Sub Formats
  • Printing PDFs
  • Prepress / Preflight
  • Redacting PDFs
  • Text Markups
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