[pdftex] Producing and optimizing PDF-1.2

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu Oct 4 15:49:19 CEST 2001


At 11:59 AM 10/4/2001 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
>On 2001-10-04 11:25:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > in most cases you can consider them to be the same; linearization comes
> > down to providing additional structuring info (ref tables and so) so that
> > pages can be downloaded fast. Optimization includes linearization, but 
> also
> > concerns removing redundant or unused objects and figuring out what 
> bitmaps
> > are the same and can be shared.
>
>But for Acrobat Reader "optimized" == linearized, right?

acrobat reader can only accept, so for that program pdf=pdf -)

exchange 2-3 during saving files linearized, removed redundant bitmaps and 
fixed some arrays, acrobat 4 the same, and acrobat 5 has some more 
'optimizations' although some are dangerous

Hans

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