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Flatten pdf online quickly and efficiently. By flattening PDFs, layers are combined into a single layer, which significantly reduces the file size. This makes sharing or uploading your PDFs much simpler and faster.
Additionally, your PDF images can be optimized. Further reducing file size for even greater efficiency.
For the best results, we use Ghostscript, a powerful tool for flattening PDFs. Ghostscript provides advanced options like auto filtering color and gray images, downsampling mono, gray, and color images, and converting CMYK images to RGB. This ensures your PDFs are optimized to the highest standard.
FAQ:
What does flatten pdf mean?
Flattening a PDF refers to the process of converting interactive elements, such as form fields and annotations, into a static document that can no longer be edited. This is typically done to ensure that the document will appear the same on different devices and software programs, and to prevent any unintended changes to the content or layout. Once a PDF is flattened, any interactive elements are essentially "burned in" and become part of the document's static image.