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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-19

Linearize command line tool

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
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      [imported from SourceForge]
      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=78314&atid=552835&aid=1033054
      Originally submitted by benlitchfield on 2004-09-22 17:42.

      PDFBox should come with a utility to convert a pdf to a
      linearized pdf document.

      [comment on SourceForge]
      Originally sent by renaudw.
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      I wish to voice my support for this feature request. It would be very useful to us too. Thanks for the great work!

      [comment on SourceForge]
      Originally sent by meshcurrent.
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      I am involved in a free project where we are digitizing a very
      large number of books and turning them into PDF using open
      source software to serve on the Net. I thought I'd post a
      comment to say that linearization would be a really attractive
      feature for us in PDFBox if implemented.

      Youssef Eldakar
      Bibliotheca Alexandrina

      [comment on SourceForge]
      Originally sent by benlitchfield.
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      Some example pdfs (linearized and not):
      The linearized version is created by an evaluation
      version of
      PdfLib. Don't worry about the blank page.
      The pdf is also beeing validated by our in-house pdf
      expert. I've
      tryed it today.
      Sadly, it is urgent for us to deliver a correct version
      of the pdf
      to our customer, I think we will buy a version of
      PdfLib (we control
      it via a JNI Bridge)..
      Anyhow, if you find a way of implementing the
      linearization in
      PDFBox, I will be happy to throw away PdfLib.
      I think a constructor like
      org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument(COSDocument
      doc, boolean linearize) would be nice, and sorry I
      don't have time to
      help you in enhancing PdfBox now. (Maybe I'll write some
      examples of basic
      usage pattern of your library)

      See the following for examples.
      Linearized_c_14720040602en00010001.pdf
      Not_Linearized_c_14720040602en00010001.pdf

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