Hi team, just wondering if anyone knows an easy wa...
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Elliott Taylor
01/15/2025, 5:16 AMHi team, just wondering if anyone knows an easy way to convert the binary pdf which is downloaded from gooddata to an ordinary pdf file. I'm unable to edit the file using other software such as the adobe suite.
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Mauricio Cabezas
01/15/2025, 8:49 AMHi Elliott, thank you for reaching out to us. First I would like to ask what is the use case to edit PDF after export? it is not possible to do it before, improving or changing the dashboard? Otherwise we do not have any official tool, there are many online tools able to do this edition (I have tried with few of them, successfully).
Mauricio Cabezas
01/15/2025, 2:22 PMHi Elliott, I have a small update. I had discussed internally with one of our Engineers and there may be a workaround to open your exported PDF in Adobe Suite.
There are few useless bytes at the beginning of the file. Thus, he managed to fix the issue via this terminal command.
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tail -c +5 /path/to/export.pdf > /path/to/export_fix.pdf Copy code
Get-Content -Path /path/to/export.pdf -Raw | Select-Object -Skip 4 | Set-Content -Path /path/to/export_fix.pdf -NoNewlineMauricio Cabezas
01/17/2025, 3:08 PMHi Elliot, I am wondering if you had the time to see our last update.
Please. let us to know if the provided solution works for you.
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Elliott Taylor
01/29/2025, 4:37 AMHi Mauricio, I was able to edit the pdf with what you provided and I'm now able ot edit it in adobe so I appreciate that. I can't see the update that you are referring to which would help
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Mauricio Cabezas
01/29/2025, 1:04 PMHi Elliot, I am glad is working now. With 'update' I was just referring my previos message I sent, was part of the follow up 🙂