Remove PDF Password
HowTo: Linux Remove a PDF File Password Using Command Line Options
You can remove the password using various utilities under Linux. Use any one of the following option:
1. pdftk - A handy tool for manipulating PDF file.
2. qpdf - The qpdf program is used to convert one PDF file to another equivalent PDF file.
3. xpdf-utils - Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- utilities such as pdftops and ps2pdf.
4. Print to a file - Use Evince software itself.
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=unencrypted.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f encrypted.pdf
Remove Printing Restrictions
pdf2ps [FILE].pdf out.ps ps2pdf out.ps [FILE2].pdf
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=unencrypted.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f encrypted.pdf
Fonts
pdffonts command line tool from Xpdf
If you just want to find out the font names: run this from a terminal
strings yourPDFfilepath.pdf | grep FontName
References:
- How to find out which fonts are referenced and which are embedded in a PDF document - Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/614619/how-to-find-out-which-fonts-are-referenced-and-which-are-embedded-in-a-pdf-docum
Fonts in PDF files
The PDF file format supports the use of the following font formats:
- TrueType
- Type 1
- Type 3
- Composite fonts (Type 0): both Type 1 (CIDFontType0) and TrueType (CIDFontType2) are supported.
- OpenType: From PDF 1.6 onwards, OpenType fonts can be stored directly in PDF files. In prior releases OpenType fonts are embedded as either Type 1 or TrueType fonts. The ability to embed OpenType directly was added for the forms capabilities of PDF, it offers no immediate advantage for prepress users.
By preference any fonts that are used in a layout are also included in the PDF file itself. This makes sure that the file can be viewed and printed as it was created by the designer. There are two mechanisms to include fonts in a PDF:
- Embedding – A full copy of the entire character set of a font is stored in the PDF.
- Subsetting – Only those characters that are actually used in the lay-out are stored in the PDF. If the “$” character doesn’t appear anywhere in the text, that character is not included in the font. This means that PDF files with subsetted fonts are smaller than PDF files with embedded fonts. For subsetted fonts, the font name is preceded by 6 random characters and a plus sign.
If certain fonts are missing from the PDF file, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader will automatically try to emulate the missing font by using one of the Multiple Master fonts that are built into these programs. This way, the document will not be represented exactly as the designer wanted it to, but at least the text won’t reflow. The Multiple Master fonts that are used for this are:
- Adobe Serif MM
- Adobe Sans MM
Fonts that are not necessarily included in PDF files. Older versions of Adobe Acrobat (Acrobat 3.x and earlier) will never embed the following 14 fonts in a PDF file:
- Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-Oblique & Courier-BoldOblique
- Times-Roman , Times-Bold , Times-Italic & Times-BoldItalic
- Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-Oblique & Helvetica-BoldOblique
- Symbol
- ZapfDingbats.
These fonts, excluding ZapfDingbats, are called the Base 13 fonts.
From Acrobat 4.x onwards, there is no problem embedding the above 14 fonts. In fact it is a good idea to actually always embed these fonts as well. Instead we got another restriction: if the licensing policy of a TrueType forbids the font to be included in a file, Distiller 4 and later will respect this restriction and will not embed the font.
Source: Fonts in PDF files | How to embed or subset a font in a PDF - http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/fonts
PDF Core Fonts
See PDF/Fonts
PDF in Linux
See Linux/PDF
Calculations
How to do (not so simple) form calculations - https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/print/how-to-do-not-so-simple-form-calculations
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var sum = Number(this.getField("sum1").value) + Number(this.getField("sum2").value) + Number(this.getField("sum3").value) +
Number(this.getField("sum4").value) + Number(this.getField("sum5").value);
event.value = (sum/25)*100;
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if ((event.value == Infinity)|| isNaN(event.value)) { event.value = '' }
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(function () {
// Get the field values, as numbers
var v1 = +getField("A").value;
var v2 = +getField("B").value;
if (v1 !== 0) {
event.value = 100 * (v1 - v2) / v1;
} else {
event.value = "";
}
})();
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// Custom Calculate script
(function () {
// Get the input field values, as strings
var s1 = getField("F1").valueAsString;
var s2 = getField("F2").valueAsString;
// Only proceed if there is a value in both fields
if (s1 && s2) {
// Convert field values to numbers
var v1 = +s1;
var v2 = +s2;
// Perform the division if the denominator is not zero
if (v2 !== 0) {
event.value = util.printf("%.0f", 100 * v1 / v2);
} else {
event.value = 0;
}
} else {
// Blank this field if either input is blank
event.value = "";
}
})();
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