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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDFfunctionality
On 2019-10-12 1:15, Arlen _G_ Holder wrote:
A recent thread asking for PDF-related freeware resurrected this listing... o PDF editor needed, free and local software https://alt.windows7.general.narkive.com/sUfMQ96L/pdf-editor-needed-free-and-local-software All I ask in this thread is that the Usenet potluck members IMPROVE this listing... [x] Fast PDF reader: (Sumatra PDF freeware replaces acrobat reader freeware) [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf freeware replaces Acrobat payware site archival) [x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk freeware replaces Acrobat payware ordering) [x] Remove pages (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware easily remove pages) [x] Rotate pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now rotates pages & allows a save) [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now allows renumbering pages) [x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript/Ghostview freeware in combination) [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware both merge multiple PDFs) [x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer freeware) [x] Edit PDF existing text (Acrobat DC commenting replaces Acrobat payware) [x] Print sans username in the properties (Libre Office Writer, any others?) [_] Print book format PDF (FinePrint payware but we need a freeware solution) [x] Tile PDFs to print large posters (Posterazor freeware) [x] Create new text (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript freeware) [?] ??? what else ??? PDF reader and virtual printer: Foxit reader, PDF Xchange PDF file management (scientific oriented): Mendeley PDF OCR: PDF Xchange Pictures to PDF: Freepic2pdf pdf to djvu converter: pdf2djvu -- Regards, Lu Wei IM: PGP: 0xA12FEF7592CCE1EA |
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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDF functionality
In message , Lu Wei
writes: On 2019-10-12 1:15, Arlen _G_ Holder wrote: A recent thread asking for PDF-related freeware resurrected this listing... o PDF editor needed, free and local software https://alt.windows7.general.narkive...itor-needed-fr ee-and-local-software All I ask in this thread is that the Usenet potluck members IMPROVE this listing... [x] Fast PDF reader: (Sumatra PDF freeware replaces acrobat reader freeware) Foxit freeware too (earlier versions less bloated) [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf freeware replaces Acrobat payware site archival) [x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk freeware replaces Acrobat payware ordering) [x] Remove pages (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware easily remove pages) [x] Rotate pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now rotates pages & allows a save) [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now allows renumbering pages) [x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript/Ghostview freeware in combination) Is that a generic "Ghostview", or a specific piece of software? [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware both merge multiple PDFs) [x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer freeware) I couldn't find that. I found the similarly-named https://www.tracker-software.com/pro...xchange-viewer (no leading E) ("Replaced by PDF-XChange Editor", but the Viewer's still available), but I looked through https://www.tracker-software.com/PDFVManual.pdf, and couldn't find any mention of extracting images. There's saving a page or part of a page _as_ an image, but that's not the same as actually extracting an image. (I use https://www.extractpdf.com/, which works very well [at least for single images which someone has for some reason only provided as a PDF], but is an online facility, so not suitable for confidential matters.) [x] Edit PDF existing text (Acrobat DC commenting replaces Acrobat payware) [x] Print sans username in the properties (Libre Office Writer, any others?) [_] Print book format PDF (FinePrint payware but we need a freeware solution) Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (free) will send a booklet to a printer; I presume you can use it with a PDF "printer". [x] Tile PDFs to print large posters (Posterazor freeware) [x] Create new text (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript freeware) [?] ??? what else ??? PDF reader and virtual printer: Foxit reader, PDF Xchange PDF file management (scientific oriented): Mendeley PDF OCR: PDF Xchange The above PDF Exchange Viewer freeware says it includes OCR too. Pictures to PDF: Freepic2pdf pdf to djvu converter: pdf2djvu PDF "printer" (create PDF from anything that will print - probably what Lu Wei means above by "virtual printer") - there are several; I use pdf995, but CutePDF is another I think. Most require ghostscript if you haven't already got it; most (certainly pdf995) have a copy downloadable on the same page (pdf995 will offer to get it, and does so seamlessly if you accept, the first time you use it if you haven't got it). I presume there's something about the licencing of ghostscript that prevents it being integrated into the downloads, even though it is just as free as they are. Some pdf "printer"s don't need it - I presume either their creators have incorporated ghostscript regardless, or they've written their own equivalent. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Victory does not bring with it a sense of triumph - rather the dull numbness of relief..." - Cecil Beaton quoted by Anthony Horowitz, RT 2015/1/3-9 |
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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDF functionality
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
news In message , Lu Wei writes: On 2019-10-12 1:15, Arlen _G_ Holder wrote: A recent thread asking for PDF-related freeware resurrected this listing... o PDF editor needed, free and local software https://alt.windows7.general.narkive...itor-needed-fr ee-and-local-software All I ask in this thread is that the Usenet potluck members IMPROVE this listing... [x] Fast PDF reader: (Sumatra PDF freeware replaces acrobat reader freeware) Foxit freeware too (earlier versions less bloated) [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf freeware replaces Acrobat payware site archival) [x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk freeware replaces Acrobat payware ordering) [x] Remove pages (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware easily remove pages) [x] Rotate pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now rotates pages & allows a save) [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now allows renumbering pages) [x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript/Ghostview freeware in combination) Is that a generic "Ghostview", or a specific piece of software? [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware both merge multiple PDFs) [x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer freeware) I couldn't find that. I found the similarly-named https://www.tracker-software.com/pro...xchange-viewer (no leading E) ("Replaced by PDF-XChange Editor", but the Viewer's still available), but I looked through https://www.tracker-software.com/PDFVManual.pdf, and couldn't find any mention of extracting images. There's saving a page or part of a page _as_ an image, but that's not the same as actually extracting an image. (I use https://www.extractpdf.com/, which works very well [at least for single images which someone has for some reason only provided as a PDF], but is an online facility, so not suitable for confidential matters.) [x] Edit PDF existing text (Acrobat DC commenting replaces Acrobat payware) [x] Print sans username in the properties (Libre Office Writer, any others?) [_] Print book format PDF (FinePrint payware but we need a freeware solution) Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (free) will send a booklet to a printer; I presume you can use it with a PDF "printer". [x] Tile PDFs to print large posters (Posterazor freeware) [x] Create new text (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript freeware) [?] ??? what else ??? PDF reader and virtual printer: Foxit reader, PDF Xchange PDF file management (scientific oriented): Mendeley PDF OCR: PDF Xchange The above PDF Exchange Viewer freeware says it includes OCR too. Pictures to PDF: Freepic2pdf pdf to djvu converter: pdf2djvu PDF "printer" (create PDF from anything that will print - probably what Lu Wei means above by "virtual printer") - there are several; I use pdf995, but CutePDF is another I think. Most require ghostscript if you haven't already got it; most (certainly pdf995) have a copy downloadable on the same page (pdf995 will offer to get it, and does so seamlessly if you accept, the first time you use it if you haven't got it). I presume there's something about the licencing of ghostscript that prevents it being integrated into the downloads, even though it is just as free as they are. Some pdf "printer"s don't need it - I presume either their creators have incorporated ghostscript regardless, or they've written their own equivalent. Thank you. Very helpful for those that don't know. I've added ExtractPDF (https://www.extractpdf.com/) to my Online PDF Utilities list. -- Regards wasbit |
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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDFfunctionality
On 14/10/2019 09:45, wasbit wrote:
Thank you. Very helpful for those that don't know. I've added ExtractPDF (https://www.extractpdf.com/) to my Online PDF Utilities list. Thank *YOU* for the link, 'wasbit'. I've tried it on my Mac and it works exactly as I'd hoped. :-D |
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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDF functionality
In message , wasbit
writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message news In message , Lu Wei writes: On 2019-10-12 1:15, Arlen _G_ Holder wrote: A recent thread asking for PDF-related freeware resurrected this listing... [] [x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer freeware) I couldn't find that. I found the similarly-named [] software.com/PDFVManual.pdf, and couldn't find any mention of extracting images. There's saving a page or part of a page _as_ an image, but that's not the same as actually extracting an image. (I use https://www.extractpdf.com/, which works very well [at least ~BD~ please note the above line was me (-: for single images which someone has for some reason only provided as a PDF], but is an online facility, so not suitable for confidential matters.) [] Thank you. Very helpful for those that don't know. I've added ExtractPDF (https://www.extractpdf.com/) to my Online PDF Utilities list. You're welcome. (~BD~, I'm not surprised it "works" on a Mac, as it's an online facility rather than anything local.) It does seem a very good service! It even extracts some metadata as well as the image, sometimes. (There is a maximum - file size, IIRR - but I've rarely hit it.) I've mainly used it for genealogical research (for some reason, a lot of people scanning old birth certificates and the like do so into PDF rather than to an image format), so I'm not doing anything confidential; however, if anyone _does_ know of an _offline_ utility that can extract images from a PDF (_not_ "save pages or parts of a page from a PDF as an image" - not the same thing!), please share; not only for those who have something confidential to extract, but also it'd be useful to be able to do it when not online. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Address the chair!" "There isn't a chair, there's only a rock!" "Well, call it a chair!" "Why not call it a rock?" (First series, fit the sixth.) |
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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDFfunctionality
On 14/10/2019 16:01, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , wasbit writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message news In message , Lu Wei writes: On 2019-10-12 1:15, Arlen _G_ Holder wrote: A recent thread asking for PDF-related freeware resurrected this listing... [] [x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer freeware) I couldn't find that. I found the similarly-named [] software.com/PDFVManual.pdf, andÂ* couldn't find any mention of extracting images. There's saving a page orÂ* part of a page _as_ an image, but that's not the same as actuallyÂ* extracting an image. (I use https://www.extractpdf.com/, which works very well [at least ~BD~ please note the above line was me (-: Ah! OK, John. My sincere thanks to *YOU*! forÂ* single images which someone has for some reason only provided as a PDF],Â* but is an online facility, so not suitable for confidential matters.) [] Thank you. Very helpful for those that don't know. I've added ExtractPDF (https://www.extractpdf.com/) to my Online PDF Utilities list. You're welcome. (~BD~, I'm not surprised it "works" on a Mac, as it's an online facility rather than anything local.) It does seem a very good service! It even extracts some metadata as well as the image, sometimes. (There is a maximum - file size, IIRR - but I've rarely hit it.) I've mainly used it for genealogical research (for some reason, a lot of people scanning old birth certificates and the like do so into PDF rather than to an image format), so I'm not doing anything confidential; however, if anyone _does_ know of an _offline_ utility that can extract images from a PDF (_not_ "save pages or parts of a page from a PDF as an image" - not the same thing!), please share; not only for those who have something confidential to extract, but also it'd be useful to be able to do it when not online. The additional info. is both helpful and interesting. Thanks again. -- David B. Devon, UK |
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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDF functionality
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
I've mainly used it for genealogical research (for some reason, a lot of people scanning old birth certificates and the like do so into PDF rather than to an image format), so I'm not doing anything confidential; however, if anyone _does_ know of an _offline_ utility that can extract images from a PDF (_not_ "save pages or parts of a page from a PDF as an image" - not the same thing!), please share; not only for those who have something confidential to extract, but also it'd be useful to be able to do it when not online. This isn't a good example, but shows a bit of the idea. The first call to the tool, dumps the "objects" contained in it, including (subset) fonts. The second call, the "extract", extracts the numbered object. Which is object 26 in this example. Object 35 might be the parent object. mutool info sample.pdf Images (6): [Page] 1 (35 0 R): [ JPX ] 1600x1200 8bpc ICC (26 0 R) mutool extract -r sample.pdf 26 The result is a 1600x1200 PNG file. ******* Manual page: https://www.mupdf.com/docs/manual-mutool-extract.html The executable I have, mutool --help shows "info" as the keyword to use, whereas the documentation page shows "show" as the keyword to display information about a page. Presumably the keywords in the built-in help are consistent with what actually works. ******* I would never expect the colors to match, because this involves computers... :-) You'll notice the info shows "ICC" color space for the object I extracted. I don't know if this tool makes an effort to maintain color information or not. Paul |
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Please improve this listing of available freeware PDF functionality
On 10/14/2019 11:01 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
snip however, if anyone _does_ know of an _offline_ utility that can extract images from a PDF (_not_ "save pages or parts of a page from a PDF as an image" - not the same thing!), please share; not only for those who have something confidential to extract, but also it'd be useful to be able to do it when not online. http://www.rlvision.com/ That's the home site. That version is shareware but there is a last freeware version. (v 1.2) elsewhere. Program: PDF Image Extraction Wizard Company: RL Vision http://www.321download.com/LastFreew...betically.html http://www.321download.com/LastFreew...ge36.html#PIEW Windows 95/98/NT4/ME/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 Wa (Donationware) (free) LFW (v 1.2) http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/files2/pdf_image_extraction_wizard_12_setup.zip Susan -- Posted to alt.comp.freeware (using WinXP-SP2, Win7professional-32 bit) http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pricelesswarehome.org |
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In message , Susan Bugher
writes: On 10/14/2019 11:01 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: snip however, if anyone _does_ know of an _offline_ utility that can extract images from a PDF (_not_ "save pages or parts of a page from a PDF as an [] http://www.rlvision.com/ That's the home site. That version is shareware but there is a last freeware version. (v 1.2) elsewhere. Program: PDF Image Extraction Wizard Company: RL Vision http://www.321download.com/LastFreew...betically.html http://www.321download.com/LastFreew...ge36.html#PIEW Windows 95/98/NT4/ME/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 Wa (Donationware) (free) LFW (v 1.2) http://www.321download.com/LastFreew..._extraction_wi zard_12_setup.zip [] Thanks for that. It installed on W7 OK. Running, it has three stages: Extracting images Processing image format Moving files to destination folder with no progress bars. I am trying it. Worked fine; thanks! (I'm puzzled what "Processing" it has to do; maybe header tweaking? I did try it on a file with multiple images, and it produced some .bmp and some .jpg, so presumably it gets the original types.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A good pun is its own reword. |
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 15:30:10 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Is that a generic "Ghostview", or a specific piece of software? Hi JP Gilliver, It has been a long time since I needed to remove all restrictions and encryption from a PDF, where I just dug into the Usenet archives at http://tinyurl.com/comp-text-pdf To find this for you... How to remove PDF permissions on Windows: (dated in December 2014) 1. Install GPL Ghostscript 9.00 for 32-bit Windows (gs900w32.exe) http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirror...0/gs900w32.exe 2. Install GSview release v4.9 Win32 self extracting archive (gsv49w32.exe) http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirror...m/gsv49w32.exe 3. Install ps2edit (pstoeditsetup350.exe) http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/p...0.exe?download 4. Bring up GSView by clicking on its shortcut 5. File-Open-protected_pdf_file.pdf 6. File-Convert (pdfwrite, 600dpi, all pages, ok) On Linux, the thread shows this (also December 2014, so things may have changed in the interim with the versions of software & capabilities). To remove pdf permissions from an encrypted PDF file on Ubuntu-based Linux: $ sudo apt-get install pdf2djvu (That installs djvups, among other things) $ sudo apt-get install context (That installs ps2pdf, among other things) $ pdf2djvu secured.pdf -o temp.djvu $ djvups temp.djvu temp.ps $ ps2pdf temp.ps unsecured.pdf $ okular secure.pdf (File Properties = Security = Encrypted) http://i57.tinypic.com/6gwz6a.jpg $ okular unsecure.pdf (File Properties = Security = Unencrypted) http://i57.tinypic.com/t899op.jpg Note that I'm not supplying the URL because I literally had to go to the police when I was contacted by the publisher of these documents, where the publisher threatened me with legal action, and where I brought it all to the police the very next day - and he stopped after they contacted him, where I left it at that. -- Note that Marek Novotny, William Unruh, Jasen Betts, Jonathan Little, Paul, and quite a few others participated on that rather long thread, which I only took the summary above from the beginning page on Google Groups. |
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:45:44 -0400, Paul wrote:
mutool info sample.pdf Hi Paul, We forgot to list free pdf optimization, aka shrinking the file size, compression, making the file smaller, downsampling, whatever. I generally use Acrobat payware to shrink, and, when the going gets rough, I use ImageMagick (usually on Linux) or GhostScript, but your mutool suggestion might be useful for free PDF shrinking. Here are my logs if anyone has the need for a free PDF shrinker. a. Test files b. Log files TEST FILES: o Designing Analog Chips, by Hans Camenzind http://designinganalogchips.com/_count/designinganalogchips.pdf o Introduction to Programming using Python, by Y Daniel Liang https://doc.lagout.org/programmation/python/Introduction%20to%20Programming%20using%20Python%2 0%5BLiang%202012-01-12%5D.pdf o Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science, by Margaret M. Fleck http://mfleck.cs.illinois.edu/building-blocks/version-1.3/whole-book.pdf o Free to Choose, by Milton Friedman http://www.proglocode.unam.mx/sites/proglocode.unam.mx/files/docencia/Milton%20y%20Rose%20Friedman%20-%20Free%20to%20Choose.pdf o Designing automotive suspension systems https://tinyurl.com/advanced-vehicle-technology LOG FILES: Usually when Adobe Acrobat fails to get a good size, ImageMagick wins: o convert -density 200x200 -quality 60 -compress jpeg big.pdf small.pdf o convert -density 200x200 -quality 60 -compress jpeg -resize 50% big.pdf small.pdf o convert -compress Zip -density 150x150 big.pdf small.pdf o http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#compress If not, GhostScript works reasonably well on a lot of the PDFs. o gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=small.pdf big.pdf o gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dQUIET -sOutputFile=small.pdf big.pdf o gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=small.pdf big.pdf o gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=small.pdf big.pdf o gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dDownsampleColorImages=true -dColorImageResolution=150 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=small.pdf big.pdf #!/bin/sh gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 \ -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen \ -dEmbedAllFonts=true \ -dSubsetFonts=true \ -dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \ -dColorImageResolution=72 \ -dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \ -dGrayImageResolution=72 \ -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \ -dMonoImageResolution=72 \ -sOutputFile=out.pdf \ $1 But each PDF is different. There are LOTs of solutions in my logs that I've done over the years. o https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt o pdfsizeopt big.pdf small.pdf o pdftk big.pdf output small.pdf compress o https://mupdf.com/docs/manual-mutool-convert.html o https://mupdf.com/docs/manual-mutool-create.html o http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/ o qpdf --linearize big.pdf small.pdf o pdf2ps big.pdf huge.ps && ps2pdf huge.ps small.pdf o ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook big.pdf small.pdf o ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer big.pdf small.pdf o pdf2ps big.pdf huge.ps && ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dDownsampleColorImages=true -dColorImageResolution=200 -dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic huge.ps small.pdf o ps2pdf -dDownsampleColorImages=true -dDownsampleMonoImages=true -dDownsampleGrayImages=true -dColorImageResolution=300 -dGrayImageResolution=600 -dMonoImageResolution=1200 o https://www.windows10download.com/4dots-free-pdf-compress/ - stinks o https://github.com/gugli28/PdfCompressor o http://www.nicepdf.com/products.html shareware o https://www.timedicer.co.uk/programs/help/pdf-compress.sh.php o Open big.pdf in Libre Office; export as pdf; set "jpeg compression quality" & "image resolution" o etc. In short, do you have a good free solution for resizing PDFs? |
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Arlen Holder wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:45:44 -0400, Paul wrote: mutool info sample.pdf Hi Paul, We forgot to list free pdf optimization, aka shrinking the file size, compression, making the file smaller, downsampling, whatever. Reprocessing PDFs for that purpose, changes the date, creator, messes with fonts, whatever. There's no real profit in this. Messing with PDFs is for repurpose-ment, such as deleting sections of no value, or removing information that doesn't belong there. With the understanding it's a "derived" document, and if the statistics are disturbed, it's "document -- my_document(privatecopy)". But after a file is repurposed, there's no need for additional spit-polish. Job is done. It's been a long time, since a PDF tool made such a mess, I'd consider a pass for optimization as being necessary. At one time, there was a big difference between the tools, but today, from a file size perspective, and considering the large size of rotating disk drives, this issue is moot. I just did backups yesterday, and out of the 3TB backed up, the amount of "excess bytes" in the PDF collection represents a "fly fart". It would be a bad use of my time to save 10MB out of 3TB, by reprocessing some PDF files. Paul |
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