How to Force Google Chrome to Download PDF Files

Try this:

• Go to "Options" (click the wrench button on upper right)
• Go to: Under the Hood -> Content Settings -> Plug-ins
• Click on "Disable Individual Plug-ins...
• Locate the Adobe Acrobat plugin (or any other PDF viewer) and click "Disable"

Voila!

Cite as:
Saad, T. "How to Force Google Chrome to Download PDF Files". Weblog entry from Please Make A Note. https://pleasemakeanote.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-force-google-chrome-to-download.html?m=0

How to Add a Watermark in Latex

More often than not, I like to place a “DRAFT” watermark on my documents. This can be easily and automatically done by just including a specific package (one for PS and one for PDF).

Here’s how

\usepackage[draftcopy] % for PS and DVI

\usepackage[pdfdraftcopy] % for PDF

Voila!

For the documentation of draftcopy check here.

For the documentation of pdfdraftcopy check here.

Cite as:
Saad, T. "How to Add a Watermark in Latex". Weblog entry from Please Make A Note. https://pleasemakeanote.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-add-watermark-in-latex.html?m=0

How to Flatten or Embed Comments in a PDF using Acrobat©

Most often than not, I implement all my comments to PDF files (such as manuscript proofs) using the many rich features of Adobe’s Acrobat Professional. However, I always prefer to “flatten” these comments that is, make them a permanent part of the PDF document. There are a few methods for doing this, but by far, the fastest and most clever is this one, found on PlanetPDF

1. In Acrobat professional, type “Ctrl + j” to invoke the java script dialog
2. In that dialog, type: this.flattenPages();
3. press “Ctrl + Enter”

Voila!

Don’t forget to save your document.

Cite as:
Saad, T. "How to Flatten or Embed Comments in a PDF using Acrobat©". Weblog entry from Please Make A Note. https://pleasemakeanote.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-flatten-or-embed-comments-in-pdf.html?m=0

How to hyperlink to a specific page in a pdf file

I was working on my new website today and in one section, I needed to hyperlink to a magazine's pdf file over the internet. However, I was only interested in linking to an article in that magazine that starts on page 38. Can this be done? Yes!!! Here's how:

http://www.somewebsite.com/somePDFFile.pdf#page=page-number

Voila!

In my case, the link read something like

http://www.somewebsite.com/somePDFFile.pdf#page=38

Cite as:
Saad, T. "How to hyperlink to a specific page in a pdf file". Weblog entry from Please Make A Note. https://pleasemakeanote.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-hyperlink-to-specific-page-in.html?m=0