NAME

       extractpdfmark - Extract page mode and named destinations as PDFmark from PDF

SYNOPSIS

       extractpdfmark file.pdf > file.ps

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the extractpdfmark command.

       When you create a PDF document using a TeX system, you may include many small PDF files in
       the main PDF file.  It is common for each of those files to use the same fonts.

       If the small PDF files contain embedded font subsets, the TeX system includes  them  as-is
       in  the  main PDF.  As a result, several subsets of the same font are embedded in the main
       PDF.  It is not possible to remove the duplicates since they are different subsets.   This
       vastly increases the size of the main PDF file.

       On  the other hand, if the small PDF files contain embedded full font sets, the TeX system
       also includes all of them in the main PDF.  This time, the main PDF contains duplicates of
       the  same full sets of fonts.  Therefore, Ghostscript can remove the duplicates.  This may
       considerably reduce the main PDF-file's size.

       Finally, if the small PDF files contain some fonts that are not embedded, the  TeX  system
       outputs  the  main  PDF file with some fonts missing.  In this case, Ghostscript can embed
       the necessary fonts.  It can significantly reduce the required disk size.

       Either way, when Ghostscript reads the main PDF produced by the TeX system and outputs the
       final  PDF  it  does  not preserve PDF page-mode and named-destinations etc.  As a result,
       when you open the final PDF, it is not displayed correctly.  Also, remote PDF  links  will
       not work.

       This  program is able to extract page mode and named destinations as PDFmark from PDF.  By
       using this you can get the small PDF files that have preserved them.

EXAMPLE

              $ extractpdfmark TeX-System-Outputted.pdf > Extracted-PDFmark.ps
              $ gs -q  -dBATCH  -dNOPAUSE  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite  -sOutputFile=Final.pdf  TeX-System-
              Outputted.pdf Extracted-PDFmark.ps

                                        December 11, 2016                       EXTRACTPDFMARK(1)