Usesumatrapdf-tool.exeor SumatraPDF.exe with the same arguments.
Available in pre-release 3.7
In the application #
To decompress a PDF in SumatraPDF:
- open a PDF document
- press
Ctrl + Kto open the command palette - select
Decompress PDF
Or:
- open a PDF document
- right-click to open the context menu
- select
Document>Decompress PDF
From the command line #
To decompress a PDF using SumatraPDF from the command line:
sumatrapdf-tool clean -d foo.pdf foo-decompressed.pdfFor an explanation of all flags, see sumatrapdf-tool clean.
You might want to decompress a PDF to inspect its structure more easily.
If a PDF file is compressed, the decompressed version should be bigger.
If a PDF is already decompressed, this will have little effect.
You can also compress a PDF.