Linearizing PDF scans

Alexandre Souza alexandre.tabajara at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 15:23:56 CDT 2021


Hey Dave, I've been digitizing docs for free for years
Is any kind of standard, recomendation, group, mail list, to discuss the
subject?
All pdfs in www.tabalabs.com.br/esquemateca were scanned by me. I'm always
open to critics and suggestions
thanks
Alexandre, PU2SEX

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Em sex., 13 de ago. de 2021 às 17:20, J. David Bryan via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> escreveu:

> Is it still useful to linearize PDFs?
>
> I've been scanning and PDFing manuals for 16 years, and I've been
> linearizing them regularly.  My understanding is that this made them
> accessible on a page-by-page basis in Web browsers without requiring a
> complete file download first.  But given the increase in typical bandwidth
> in 16 years, I wonder if this is still useful.  It is an extra step, and
> it
> does make the files somewhat larger.
>
> Recommendations?  Does linearizing confer any advantage locally once the
> entire file is downloaded?
>
> Thanks.
>
>                                       -- Dave
>
>


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