Re: PDF Meta Tags

["Henning Hraban Ramm" <hraban@fiee.net>]

2009/1/20 Bart C. Wise <bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com>:
> I talked to the publisher again and he said that he would send me the exact
> error message, but I have not received it yet.  But he did say that his
> printing shop wants the ability to download just the header information from a
> pdf rather than the whole pdf file which may be up to 80 mbytes.  From that
> header information they will have the ability to render individual pages
> rather than the whole document.  For example, they could request page 264 and
> render that single page as a jpeg.

This sounds like "web optimized" PDFs, those contain a second object
index at the start ("normal" PDFs have it at the end), so a *browser*
can request selected pages from the *webserver* without loading the
whole document.

It's meant as a web technology, and I never heard of anyone using it
in a print workflow. But it's not impossible.


Tha has *nothing* to do with tagged PDF!
"Tagged" is a technology to enable re-flowing text contents to e.g.
small devices or extracting of content for alternative readers, e.g.
screenreaders.
PDFs for print should *not* be tagged in this way, for it can confuse
a print workflow.

Printshops should adhere to printing standards like PDF/X-1a and
PDF/X-3 - and these never need web optimization or tagging!


Greetlings, Hraban
(printing engineer and PDF workflow techie)
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