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Create Images from PDF and recreate PDF from Images...

Posted 04-19-2016 at 07:06 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 09-12-2017 at 12:33 PM by Michael Uplawski (a different title for the second script; wording improved)

You might think WTF. But that would be a waste of spontaneity.
Even if the thought has never hit you, this procedure has been useful many times.

Background

My own reasons to convert PDF-files to images, then back to PDF have been
  • PDFs containing unnecessarily huge images
  • PDFs with OpenType fonts which were not correctly embedded
  • PDF content that I did not want to see copied (not easily, at least)
  • PDFs which were originally made from images, that I wanted
...
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File Type: png pdf_tiff_sc.png (20.8 KB, 13 views)
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