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MENU Getting Started: 1. Windows   Text Menu   (now with video!)   2. Linux   Ubuntu   Env vars   3. Mac OSX   4. Help in other languages FAQ | Forum Customizing K2PDFOPT:   1. K2pdfopt GUIs   2. Disabling the Windows GUI   3. The interactive menu   4. List of command-line options   5. Using a shortcut   (now with video!)   6. Using the K2PDFOPT environment variable   7. Using the command line Adjusting the output:   1. Screen Size   2. Increasing the magnification   3. Landscape mode   4. Output File Size   5. Setting Margins   6. Color Output   7. Uneven Line Breaks/ Excess Margins Processing Options:   1. Showing Markings   2. OCR   3. Native PDF   (now with video!)   4. Auto-Straightening   5. Ignoring Borders/ Headers/Footers   6. Detecting Columns   7. Column Order   8. Right-to-Left Page Scanning   9. Using Ghostscript

GETTING STARTED: MAC OSX NOTE: An easy-to-install OSX GUI has been contributed for k2pdfopt. It includes k2pdfopt. You may wish to install k2pdfopt via this package. I do not provide support for this package. Contact the author at his web site if you have questions. NOTE 2: Several OSX 10.5 users have reported that k2pdfopt for the mac does not run on their systems. I don't have an easy work-around for this, so your options if this is happening to you are to upgrade to OSX 10.6 ($30 at Apple Store) or the latest OSX release or to run the Windows version in a virtual Windows box. As of v1.22, I've been able to compile k2pdfopt for OSX 32-bit (Intel CPU only) and OSX 64-bit (as of v1.28, Intel only). If you don't know which one to download, choose the 32-bit version since it runs on either 32-bit or 64-bit versions of OSX (again, Intel only). The k2pdfopt download is just a terminal shell application, so you have to install it a little differently then you might be used to. Follow these instructions: 1. From the download page, (a) Fill in the capcha and (b) Click on one of the Mac OSX downloads.      2. You should see Safari download the file...      3. Right-click the download and select Show in Finder      4. Move (drag) k2pdfopt to your Desktop. 5. Launch the Mac terminal app. First open the utilities folder, which is in the Applications folder.      Then open the Terminal app.      6. Type the three commands shown below in the terminal window:      a. cd Desktop      b. chmod 755 k2pdfopt      c. exit      7. Close the terminal window after typing exit. 8. You should now be able to launch the k2pdfopt program. You cannot drag PDF files to the k2pdfopt icon, so to convert a PDF file, (1) double-click the k2pdfopt icon, and then (2) drag your PDF file to the k2pdfopt window, as shown in the figure below.     You may be asked if you are sure about opening k2pdfopt, as shown below. It's okay-- just click "Open".     Dragging the PDF file to the k2pdfopt window will cause the file name to be typed into the window.     9. Press <Enter> after dragging the PDF file. That will set the file name.     10. Finally, Press <Enter> again to start the conversion. After converting, your terminal window will look something like this:     And then, after you close the k2pdfopt window, you'll see the converted file on the desktop.     CUSTOMIZING K2PDFOPT FOR THE MAC If there are customized options that you want to select automatically, you can create a custom script:      a. Launch the terminal app (see Step 5.)      b. Type these commands:           i. cd Desktop           ii. cat > k2pdfopt_custom           iii. ./k2pdfopt -ui -j 0 -odpi 250 $* (or whatever options you want--but be sure to put the -ui and keep the $* at the end)           iv. (Press <Enter> and <Ctrl-D>)           v. chmod 755 k2pdfopt_custom           vi. exit The customized script icon is now named k2pdfopt_custom, and the -ui option is important so that the script will still ask you for a file name. NOTE: If you move the customized icon to a new folder, you'll need to either move k2pdfopt with it, or reference k2pdfopt by its full path name in the customized script (step iii above).  Another way to customize k2pdfopt is to use the K2PDFOPT environment variable.

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