[jira] [Closed] (PDFBOX-19) Linearize command line tool

["John Hewson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-19?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Hewson closed PDFBOX-19.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

This is far too much work, for very little reward: linearized PDFs are of little benefit when one has high-speed broadband.

> Linearize command line tool
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-19
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-19
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Utilities
>
> [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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