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authorJay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>2019-04-20 23:38:30 +0200
committerJay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>2019-04-21 03:00:43 +0200
commit131a21d36f68370c39b349b8c3628dac5ad8f73a (patch)
treed868eecede808272a21574a2acb8ad993ddceab7 /qpdf
parenta5a016cdd26a8e5c99e5f019bc30d1bdf6c050a2 (diff)
downloadqpdf-131a21d36f68370c39b349b8c3628dac5ad8f73a.tar.zst
Document that linearize disables qdf (fixes #312)
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diff --git a/qpdf/qpdf.cc b/qpdf/qpdf.cc
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@@ -1378,7 +1378,8 @@ ArgParser::argHelp()
<< " including DCT (JPEG)\n"
<< "\n"
<< "In qdf mode, by default, content normalization is turned on, and the\n"
- << "stream data mode is set to uncompress.\n"
+ << "stream data mode is set to uncompress. QDF mode does not support\n"
+ << "linearized files. The --linearize flag disables qdf mode.\n"
<< "\n"
<< "Setting the minimum PDF version of the output file may raise the version\n"
<< "but will never lower it. Forcing the PDF version of the output file may\n"