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> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Hankinson
> I don't know of anything similar for PDFs, since they're not really
> designed to render a portion of the document without downloading the
> entire thing.
The "linearized" form of PDF is designed to do just that: permit a PDF viewer to display the first page while still downloading the rest of the document.
The "pdfopt" utility, which I believe installs with ghostscript, will do this from the command line. Alternatively you can save a PDF with "fast web view" enabled in Acrobat Professional. There are surely other ways to create a linearized PDF, but those are the methods I've used.
-AB
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Received on Mon Oct 03 2011 - 15:10:10 EDT