gHacks technology news » pdf document http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 PDF Presentation Software Impressive http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/10/pdf-presentation-software-impressive/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/10/pdf-presentation-software-impressive/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:57:09 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/10/pdf-presentation-software-impressive/ impressive_software2PDF documents are usually not used in presentations. It does happen often however that presentations are shared as pdf documents instead of the original document format which is usually created by Microsoft PowerPoint document.

Impressive is a presentation software that provides the same presentation techniques that are known from PowerPoint with the difference that it can apply those to pdf documents and images. It offers links, overviews, page transition effects, highlights, spotlights and a sheet by sheet mode that can be controlled manually with the mouse buttons or automatically.

The portable software will extract a number of different files to the local computer system. Presentations can be started by dragging and dropping files onto the impressive.exe file in the program folder or by launching the tool from the command line. The basic command would be impressive file.pdf. More than a dozen command line parameters are available that can be used to control most aspects of the presentation software. Parameters exist to start the presentation in a custom resolution, a specific display ratio, to automatically flip pages after x seconds or to display a progress bar.

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The primary application for this software is presentations. It can however be useful as a pdf reader as well especially for users who prefer to read page by page without scrolling.

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There has not been any progress in development for the last six months which could mean that the project was temporarily or permanently halted. It does however work fine in its current stage but could use some usability additions like a graphical user interface to make things easier for the user.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/10/pdf-presentation-software-impressive/feed/ 0 Edit PDF Properties http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30/edit-pdf-properties/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30/edit-pdf-properties/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:17:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30/edit-pdf-properties/ Each pdf document contains metadata that lists the document title, document author, keyword, software the document has been created with or the date of the creation among other things. These information are usually generated automatically in the pdf editor that was used to create or modify the pdf document.

These pdf editors usually contain the means to modify the pdf metadata but there are cases where other means of editing might be more comfortable or appropriate. One scenario might be the need to edit the pdf metadata using a computer without the appropriate pdf editor, another speed.

Quick PDF Tools (via Life Rocks)is a free computer software that adds entries to the context menu of Windows Explorer. Those entries allow the user to modify pdf documents on the fly. They can be used to edit certain pdf metadata entries in a window right on the Windows desktop. It is possible to edit the title, author, keywords and subject metadata entries.

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That is not all however as the software can also be used to add or remove open passwords, edit the initial view, merge selected pdf documents, convert selected images into pdf document format or to remove the bookmarks of the selected pdf documents.

Quick PDF Tools is a pdf editing software program compatible with both the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating system. The download of the program installer has a size of less than 1 Megabyte.

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PDF Creator is compatible with most Windows operating systems including the beta of Windows 7. The application makes use of Ghostscript to provide the pdf functionality. The pdf software generator comes with a few additional features that makes it interesting. It can created PDF/A documents, create encrypted pdf documents and merge multiple documents into one pdf document.

PDF Creator can also create different file formats like PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS. Another interesting option is to install the PDF Creator application to run on terminal servers.

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PDF Meta Edit (the complete name is BeCyPDFMetaEdit) is a software program for Windows that provides not only means to view the PDF document meta information but also means to edit them. The application can be downloaded as a portable version or one that needs to be installed on the computer system.

Functionality is the same and the software program opens the file browser immediately after starting the application. After loading one pdf document from the computer it will display the meta information in the first of eight tabs.

The program displays the title, author, keywords, subject, software that was used to create the pdf document, file creation and modification dates and copyright notices in that tab. Each of the information can be edited individually. The Clear All Fields button alternatively clears all information at once from the PDF document.

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PDF documents use XMP metadata in addition to the one that is displayed directly. If the document’s meta data is edited by the user he should also make sure that the XMP metadata is deleted to avoid conflicts.

The six remaining tabs contain additional information about the document. The Viewer Preference tab for instance defines the page and layout of the document while the Bookmark’s tab lists available bookmarks.

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