Questions relating to the importing, exporting, and extraction of data from PDF files
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Why ImportString[ExportString[, “PDF”], “PDF”] sometimes gives an extra point
Consider this code:
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Exporting PDF file - incorrect graphic
I export graphics to PDF using:
Export["/path/figure.pdf", plotname]
It gives me more than enough quality for PDFLatex. But somehow, some exported plots have ...
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Upon PDF export, edgeless rectangles do not tile perfectly, and corners may be cut. Is this a bug?
Exporting the following as a PDF file
Graphics[{
{Red, Rectangle[{0, 0}, {1, 1}]},
{Green, Rectangle[{1, 0}, {2, 1}]}
}]
does not produce perfectly tiled ...
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How do I save my animation/manipulation in pdf?
Is it possible to presserve my animation and manipulation plots in the pdf?
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Overwrite file on export (save as pdf) [closed]
Simple but annoying problem:
I want to export a notebook to pdf, update something, then export again.
I cannot overwrite the file and see the changes immediately.
The software asks if it is OK to ...
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Background color of Code cell lost when convert a notebook file to pdf
Well, I have a notebook with the built-in stylesheet Preprint, which I'd like to convert it to pdf. Everything works well except for the code cells(I use the shortcut key alt+8 to create cells of code ...
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Exporting German Umlauts to PDF and importing them doesn't work - character encoding problem
I am using Mathematica 9.0.0.0 under German Windows 32bit. I am on trying to export and import German text to PDF and re-import it. It seems that there is a confusion about the character encoding. It ...
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Is it possible to export a live CDF document to PDF in the browser?
I am creating a computable document format (CDF) to embed in an HTML page. I would like to have a button that can be clicked to create/save a PDF of the CDF fromt he browser. The idea is that a person ...
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How do I get a plot with a certain size? [duplicate]
I am currently creating a poster for a conference in Scribus. I have a given space on the poster for a plot that I want to create with Mathematica. I don't want to scale in in Scribus, as this would ...
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Font size in PDF export with legended plots not working
I need to export plots as PDF with a given image and font size. Everything is working fine if there is no legend for that plot. However, if I want to export legended plots, the font size is decreased ...
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How to avoid font substitution with Mathematica fonts?
When I export a Plot to PDF, a journal publisher complains that they do not have the Mathematica fonts.
I believe there is a way ...
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Avoiding grid lines inside filled area in RegionPlot exported as PDF
Basically the same question as here, but now with regions which have opacity.
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Why are the elements of plots separated in exported PDFs?
When I export a plot to a PDF with something like
Export["test.pdf", Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2 Pi}], "PDF"]
I get a file in which the axes have been separated from ...
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Color ramp banding in PDFKit when exporting Raster image Inset to PDF
Here I produce a Raster image with large uniformly colored rectangles and put it in an Inset:
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Printing exported PDF graphics fails (version 8)
When I export even simple graphics, say, a DateListPlot to PDF under Windows, it refuses to print on any of the printers at work.
Acrobat (Reader X) throws three ...
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1answer
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How can I export specific data into different pages in .PDF format?
I have made various Grid-s and arranged them column-wise in another Grid.
All Grids are ...
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Running external pdflatex command and importing the generated PDF document
There have been a couple of questions about incorporating labels and equations that were typeset in $\LaTeX$ into a Mathematica notebook. Ideally, this requires running ...
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Combine multiple PDF files into one document
I have multiple single page PDFs I'd like to join together into a single file. (Obviously I mean the file format and not the probability distributions here!)
I'm aware of free online services such as ...
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Trouble with fonts when exporting a 2D-plot to vector formats
I've set up my plot to look exactly how I like it. At least it does so on screen.
Upon export though, only the bitmap formats look the same.
For PDF and EPS, the FontSize seems to get ignored and the ...
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Saving a notebook as PDF, preserving syntax highlighting
Currently, one may save notebooks as PDFs from the menu by Save As... and then selecting PDF (on a Mac, I imagine it is similar on other OSs). However, the ...
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How can I save as PDF without file size getting too large? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Graphics exported from Mathematica 9 are very large because even standard fonts are embedded
I have a text only notebook that I saved as PDF. The file size is 2.8 mb. ...
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How do I prevent fonts sizes and line weights from scaling in exported graphics?
It's common to export graphics from Mathematica that are subsequently scaled to various sizes that cannot (at least not conveniently) be anticipated. This is problematic in cases where (as is common) ...
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generating pdf using UseFrontEnd
I run mathematica on a remote server and run it in batch mode using /math -noprompt -script 'scriptname.m' &
Now, I use ssh -X to connect to the server. The server is linux based and my computer ...
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Automatically sending to Print (using CutePDF Writer)
I use CutePDF for creating PDF output, but this requires manually selecting Print (Ctrl+P), with CutePDF Writer as the printer, and pressing OK. Can this be automated?
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Exporting BarChart3D as PDF produces artefacts
So I think the following image already shows the problem, similar to Avoiding white lines inside filled area in RegionPlot exported as PDF or PS the pdf export of the chart creates thin lines in the ...
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Exporting Cyrillics in PDF on Linux
I'm using Mathematica from Ubuntu. I need a normal font to display cyrillics inside PDFs. Any default font is very ugly, letters are too close together:
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Efficient export of complex graphics to PDF
So I have 2D plot, made with DensityListPlot. Mathematica just cannot export them properly to PDF, so what I want to do is 1) export the plot itself, without axes, labels, etc, as a jpg image, and 2) ...
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PDF exports of ArrayPlot's are fuzzy (OS X)
[The following problem occurs on OS X; I don't know if it also occurs with other OS's.]
If I produce a Graphics object with ...
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Degree Symbol missing in PolarPlot when exported to PDF
I am trying to produce a polar plot. The axis should be in degrees. While no error occurs, the pdf export isn't working properly. Instead of the degree symbol I get ...
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Making Mathematica graphics exported as PDF “usable” performance wise [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file
Saner alternative to ContourPlot fill
How can all those tiny polygons generated by RegionPlot be joined into a single FilledCurve?
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Some tutorials on formatting notebook for exporting to pdf
I love the way that Mathematica handles type inn of formulas. It is really easy to type complicated expressions with shortcuts on keyboard. It would be great if I could use Mathematica completely to ...
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Mathematica PDF import and fonts
I am trying to put nice LaTeX labels on my Mathematica plots. I can do this manually, or by introducing an extra GNUPlot step into my workflow, but it would streamline the process considerably if ...
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Removing clipping masks from exported PDFs
I usually export graphics from Mathematica as PDFs which I tweak with Adobe Illustrator. When most plots are exported from Mathematica as PDFs they contain a large number of mostly useless clipping ...
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Cropped pdf file after export
I have plot generated by Plot[] function that I want to export to pdf file. The problem is that Export[] function somehow cuts a ...
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Can not Import PDF
I try to import PDF and extract text from it
Import["D:\\Vegetarian MS.pdf", {"PDF", "Plaintext"}]
but with some files I have a problem like this
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How to control the page size when exporting as a PDF?
When I used Mathematica under Windows, I could control the page size of the pdf files created by Export[...,"PDF"] by setting the paper size in the print menu to ...
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Difficulties with Importing PDFs in Mathematica
I am trying to import a group of PDFs that I have downloaded (it is in the realm of 1,000+). They are a group of doctoral dissertations that I'm trying to automatically extract bibliographic ...
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How to embed fonts when exporting Mathematica graphics as PDF
Upon exporting a Mathematica graphics expression as a PDF, Mathematica does not seem to embed any nonstandard fonts used. When you open the resulting PDF document with a PDF viewer, all the text items ...
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Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file
I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with
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