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1. Download the PDF from Elsevier. 2. Open it in your own PDF viewer. 3. Press print. 4. In the printer selection box, select "Print to PDF".
by hristov 2y ago
1. Download the PDF from Elsevier.
2. Open it in your own PDF viewer.
3. Press print.
4. In the printer selection box, select "Print to PDF".
- Xelbair 2y agoif you print PDF file to PDF it creates a copy of a file.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- withinboredom 2y agoOn all OS's? That seems like a nice optimization, but I doubt it is true everywhere. There's always someone who never optimizes anything.
- dsissitka 2y agoDoesn't seem to. david@desktop:~/test$ ls -hl total 8.9M -rw-r--r--. 1 david david 2.2M Jun 10 06:02 chromium.pdf -rw-r--r--. 1 david david 4.4M Jun 10 06:02 firefox.pdf -rw-r--r--. 1 david david 2.3M Jun 10 06:01 input.pdf david@desktop:~/test$
- BSDobelix 2y agoOn Firefox if you print you can choose "safe to pdf" then it has a different checksum (compared to the downloaded one), if you say "print using the system dialog" then "print to file" the checksum is again different (compared to the other two). Linux with Firefox 126
- ExoticPearTree 2y agoMost likely it uses different libraries for PDF print, like the browser one is different than the system one.
- fallingknife 2y agoIt annoys me how you have to manually choose these safe options in FF. Same with "copy link" vs "copy link without site tracking." Why would anybody ever want the former?
- cpach 2y agoPeople doing marketing, I guess.
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoSite tracking might end up being needed if a site changes how their URLs work in response, breaking sites. Facebook made a change a while back where they went from fb.com/<unique readable url>+<tracking slug> to fb.com/<link UUID> after the tracking details were getting stripped out.
- noio 2y agoFor sure not true. I get PDF invoices, from one of my contractors, that my bookkeeping software chokes on. I use print to PDF to generate a version that it can handle. (That does not say anything about whether it removes metadata though, just that it’s not the same file)
- antegamisou 2y ago> 1. Download the PDF from Elsevier. 2. Convert pages to PNG images 3. Merge them into a new PDF 4. Run them through OCR
- out_of_protocol 2y agoWouldn't help if marks are visible, e.g. some regular string "copy №1234" somewhere or something more complicated like uneven spacing between lines or words
- bArray 2y ago1. Download PDF from publisher. 2. Open it in your PDF viewer. 3. Press print. 4. Physically print the document. 5. Re-scan the printed PDF pages. 6. Compile them into a PDF document (convert, pdfunite). 7. Compress the PDFs (ghostscript).
- RedShift1 2y agoPrinting just to rescan again? Sounds like my workplace :-)
- dopp0 2y ago1. Download PDF from publisher. 2. Open it in your PDF viewer. 3. Press print. 4. Physically print the document. 5. Re-scan the printed PDF pages. --->6. Run OCR to rebuild the document 7. profit! 7. Compress the PDFs (ghostscript).
- miki123211 2y ago5. Absolutely destroy any tagging / accessibility the PDF may have had as a result. Please, for the love of God, don't do this unless you absolutely, positively know you have to.
- pajko 2y ago0. Disable saving the zone identifier - or clear it with a tool. This information is most likely preserved when copying a file, and depending on the tool and format, it might get into a compressed archive to be restored later. https://www.digital-detective.net/forensic-analysis-of-zone-identifier-stream/ https://www.digital-detective.net/forensic-analysis-of-zone-... There's a Total Commander plugin which can show where a given file was downloaded from. Not sure which one it is as I have multiple installed. Probably this one: https://totalcmd.net/plugring/ntfsstreamviewer.html https://totalcmd.net/plugring/ntfsstreamviewer.html
- jojobas 2y ago5. ??? 6. Keep all the possible steganography in kerning, colours, line spacing and what not.