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PDF Linearize for Fast Web

20200526 Linearizing a pdf file results in a fast web view of the file. That is, the pdf will be streamed within a browser so that the first page will be displayed whilst the remaining pages are downloaded. For a non-linearized pdf the file will need to be fully downloaded before being viewed.

Use qpdf to linearize a pdf file.

  $ qpdf --linearize mydoc.pdf faster.pdf

To check if the PDF is linearized by this method try checking the 4th line of the pdf file:

  $ sed '4q;d' faters.pdf
<< /Linearized 1 /L ...


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