1EXTRACTPDFMARK(1) General Commands Manual EXTRACTPDFMARK(1)
2
6 extractpdfmark - Extract page mode and named destinations as PDFmark
7 from PDF
8
10 extractpdfmark file.pdf > file.ps
11
13 This manual page documents briefly the extractpdfmark command.
14 When you create a PDF document using a TeX system, you may include many
16 small PDF files in the main PDF file. It is common for each of those
17 files to use the same fonts.
18 If the small PDF files contain embedded font subsets, the TeX system
20 includes them as-is in the main PDF. As a result, several subsets of
21 the same font are embedded in the main PDF. It is not possible to
22 remove the duplicates since they are different subsets. This vastly
23 increases the size of the main PDF file.
24 On the other hand, if the small PDF files contain embedded full font
26 sets, the TeX system also includes all of them in the main PDF. This
27 time, the main PDF contains duplicates of the same full sets of fonts.
28 Therefore, Ghostscript can remove the duplicates. This may consider‐
29 ably reduce the main PDF-file's size.
30 Finally, if the small PDF files contain some fonts that are not embed‐
32 ded, the TeX system outputs the main PDF file with some fonts missing.
33 In this case, Ghostscript can embed the necessary fonts. It can sig‐
34 nificantly reduce the required disk size.
35 Either way, when Ghostscript reads the main PDF produced by the TeX
37 system and outputs the final PDF it does not preserve PDF page-mode and
38 named-destinations etc. As a result, when you open the final PDF, it
39 is not displayed correctly. Also, remote PDF links will not work.
40 This program is able to extract page mode and named destinations as
42 PDFmark from PDF. By using this you can get the small PDF files that
43 have preserved them.
44
46 $ extractpdfmark TeX-System-Outputted.pdf > Extracted-PDFmark.ps
47 $ gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutput‐
48 File=Final.pdf TeX-System-Outputted.pdf Extracted-PDFmark.ps
49 December 11, 2016 EXTRACTPDFMARK(1)