FAQs:

§  How does linearization work?

·         It’s a setting turned on by an Adobe library API. It causes the PDF file to be reorganized so that the resources needed for each page occur in a somewhat linear fashion in the PDF file.

§  Is it possible to choose compression or linearization both OR only one can be chosen at a time?

·         If linearization is ON, Compression is always on no matter what the compression setting is. If linearization is off, then the compression setting determines whether the internals of each object in the PDF file will be compressed.

·      How does the compression option work? Does it mean that jobs process on the server in more or less the same time as normal, but PDF viewing becomes faster?

·         Yes. Viewing is faster because the PDF file is smaller, and hence quicker to download.

§  Is it correct that choosing the linearization option means that jobs take much longer to process but that pdf viewing is much faster?

·         Yes. In addition to being compressed, the objects in the PDF file are organized in such a way that the PDF file can start to be viewed before it is downloaded in its entirety. However, if Byte-serving is not enabled in the JAS server's JAS.INI (which is on by default), this benefit will be negated.

§  How much longer jobs take to process with the linearization option?

·         No. In general, the larger the report, the more intensive the processing to linearize.