When creating a PDF via Distiller, there's an option on the Compression tab 
named "Compress Text and Line Art". (Or at least there was in V5; it seems 
to be missing in V8, though I've discovered you can still set it by manually 
editing the joboptions file). If I leave this option un-checked, I get a PDF 
that's got the text in uncompressed form, so that you can actually read the 
text in a text editor. I won't bore you with the details of why that's 
important to me, but it is.

However, I now have a PDF that someone else has supplied, and the text is 
compressed (so I assume that the option was checked when it went through 
distiller). I need to get back to the un-compressed state. Is it possible?

I was hoping that Acrobat would allow me to set a similar option when I did 
a Save As, but apparently not. Is there another way? Any tools out there? It 
doesn't seem entirely unreasonable thing to do - it's lossless compression 
after all, so going back and forward should be possible. However, I may be 
the only person in the world who wants to do so...

Thanks,
Gary 

Gary McGill <gary.mcgill@electrum.co.uk> wrote:
> [...]
> However, I now have a PDF that someone else has supplied, and the text is
> compressed (so I assume that the option was checked when it went through
> distiller). I need to get back to the un-compressed state. Is it possible?

  Have you looked into the optimizer (in the Advanced menu)?

> [...]
> Gary

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Gary McGill wrote:


> I was hoping that Acrobat would allow me to set a similar option when I did 
> a Save As, but apparently not. Is there another way? Any tools out there? It 
> doesn't seem entirely unreasonable thing to do - it's lossless compression 
> after all, so going back and forward should be possible. However, I may be 
> the only person in the world who wants to do so...

PDFTK will uncompress the text.

"Hendrik Schober" <SpamTrap@gmx.de> wrote in message 
news:feukej$aao$03$1@news.t-online.com...
> Gary McGill <gary.mcgill@electrum.co.uk> wrote:
>> [...]
>> However, I now have a PDF that someone else has supplied, and the text is
>> compressed (so I assume that the option was checked when it went through
>> distiller). I need to get back to the un-compressed state. Is it 
>> possible?
>
>  Have you looked into the optimizer (in the Advanced menu)?

Yes, I tried using the "remove compression" option in the "Clean Up 
Settings" panel, and it didn't seem to do anything. Maybe it only 
un-compresses images?

Gary 

"Gary McGill" <gary.mcgill@electrum.co.uk> wrote in message
news:13gvcq89dcul226@corp.supernews.com...
> When creating a PDF via Distiller, there's an option on the Compression tab
> named "Compress Text and Line Art". (Or at least there was in V5; it seems
> to be missing in V8, though I've discovered you can still set it by manually
> editing the joboptions file). If I leave this option un-checked, I get a PDF
> that's got the text in uncompressed form, so that you can actually read the
> text in a text editor. I won't bore you with the details of why that's
> important to me, but it is.
>
> However, I now have a PDF that someone else has supplied, and the text is
> compressed (so I assume that the option was checked when it went through
> distiller). I need to get back to the un-compressed state. Is it possible?

Print it from Acrobat to the Distiller with compression off in the latter.

[Jw]