Signature PDF is great. It allows you to do basic PDF annotations and digital signatures on said PDFS. It’s not quite a full ‘suite’ yet like Docusign and Sign Request, it seems to be only in French right now (it’s easy to figure out graphically) however, it’s pretty amazing for quick sign-offs. You can save your vectored signature (create it…
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HOW TO COMPRESS BIG PDFS IN UBUNTU
When someone sends a PDF that’s too huge, just navigate to the directory, and run this command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=name_of_compressed_OUTPUT_file.pdf name_of_UNcompressed_INPUT_file.pdf For even smaller files and lower resolution of 150dpi, just change the /prepress part to /ebook SPEED TIP: to quickly get the path in your terminal so you can cd to it quickly, just…
How to beat the Docu-sign “Document Contains No Data” annoyance
The Story *Someone sent me a Docu-sign document to sign I signed it I got the email back with the PDF I Saved the PDF to my ubuntu machine I tried to open the PDF I just saved, but got the message “The Document contains no pages” message. Couldn’t open. Note: This only happens with docu-sign and not other great…
How to Print Multiple Pages to One PDF with Ubuntu and Scribus
This was one of these exercises that seemed like it would be dead easy but took me forever to figure out. My goal was simple: to take one document, and print 4 copies of it to a PDF file (not to paper for now) so that there were 4-up on the page instead of wasting the entire page for this…
How to Encrypt a Password Around and Merge Multiple PDFs in Ubuntu
For some reason, this is way harder than it should be. I thought I would be able to find a simple ‘pdf stitcher’ software in the Software Centre and just put them in there, arrange them and then export to PDF – with a password. I think this used to be possible with PDF Sam but anyway. This tutorial will…
Working with PDFs in Ubuntu
Ubuntu is by far the best operating system in existence. One of the things that hasn’t been broadcast around much is how Ubuntu is also awesome for business. If you run a business (or work in one) you will know that PDF files are one of the most standard documents that you work with, or would like to work with. …
How to Watermark Document with Ubuntu
This post includes a quick how-to tutorial and an entire kit in a .zip file to get you started right. To simply watermark your documents, all you need is my .pdf files in the kit and a couple of free apps from the Ubuntu Software Center. If you want to change the way I’ve laid it out, I’ve also included…
How to Completely Remove Unsafe Microsoft Windows and Replace with Safe Ubuntu
So you have a Microsoft Windows computer. You finally realize that the reason you have no hair on your head is because you pulled it all out at your computer. It is full of viruses, malware, and a host of other programs attempting in vain to stop these from making their home on your machine. Also, you heard the news…
How to Easily Take Website Pages to Go with Built in Ubuntu Features
Want to read an article later and not use your data plan? Going somewhere and want to look at a website page without worrying about an internet connection? Can’t seem to find the time to read an article in the near future but worry the article might be gone when you get around to reading it? If you are using…