bionic (1) extractpdfmark.1.gz

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)