14 Aug
2021
14 Aug
'21
3:54 p.m.
On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 12:22, ben via cctech wrote:
I tend to have my PDF's on portable device, so
PDF's need to be easy
to use on those devices.
Linearizing keeps PDFs as complete files but rearranges (and expands) them
internally so that individual pages can be rendered from a subrange of
bytes sent by the server. Before linearization, the information necessary
to render a given page is scattered around the PDF file, so typically the
whole file must be downloaded before displaying the page. Once the whole
file is present locally, there's no difference in access or display whether
linearized or not.
I guess the operative question is whether people tend to view PDF pages on
a server or download files and view them locally.
Thanks.
-- Dave