taw comments on Off-Topic Discussion Thread: April 2009 - Less Wrong

11 Post author: MBlume 05 April 2009 03:23AM

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Comment author: taw 05 April 2009 10:16:25AM 3 points [-]

Is there any PDF program that converts two-column PDFs into one-column PDFs? Two columns, which way too many papers use, is just completely unusable on a computer screen. I'm sure many of you read a lot of research papers, so I guess you must have figured some way better than printing them out.

Comment author: matt 05 April 2009 09:27:35PM *  1 point [-]

Select-all, copy, paste somewhere else sometimes works (depending on how the pdf is created; this is what makes it a difficult process - some pdfs are internally organized to be small otherwise unordered text snippets absolutely positioned on the page).