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> At least once you use a tool to simplify your PDF by removing compression, object streams and whatnot. Can you please write a few details about that workflow
by acqq 7y ago
> At least once you use a tool to simplify your PDF by removing compression, object streams and whatnot.
Can you please write a few details about that workflow? What do you do and how? I used to create .ps "by hand" (actually writing scripts) but I've never tried to start from PDF and then edit. How do you "remove compression, object streams and whatnot"? And some useful references (for those Tj TJ etc).
- lol768 7y agoNot OP, but I personally use QPDF. > QPDF is capable of creating linearized (also known as web-optimized) files and encrypted files. It is also capable of converting PDF files with object streams (also known as compressed objects) to files with no compressed objects or to generate object streams from files that don't have them (or even those that already do). QPDF also supports a special mode designed to allow you to edit the content of PDF files in a text editor. For more details, please see the documentation links below. $ qpdf --stream-data=uncompress input.pdf output.pdf http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/ http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/
- kccqzy 7y agoI use QPDF too. Specifically its QDF mode. Essentially it tries to make the document as human-editable as possible. There's also a fix-qdf utility that fixes the values of offsets at the end of the file, so that you need not be careful not to change file size while editing. The reference is well Adobe's official PDF reference downloadable from its website.