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+/*
+ * This is an example program to linearize a PDF file using the C
+ * QPDFJob API.
+ */
+
+#include <qpdf/qpdfjob-c.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+static char const* whoami = 0;
+
+static void usage()
+{
+    fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s infile outfile\n", whoami);
+    exit(2);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    char* infile = NULL;
+    char* outfile = NULL;
+    char const* new_argv[6];
+    int r = 0;
+    char* p = 0;
+
+    if ((p = strrchr(argv[0], '/')) != NULL)
+    {
+	whoami = p + 1;
+    }
+    else if ((p = strrchr(argv[0], '\\')) != NULL)
+    {
+	whoami = p + 1;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+	whoami = argv[0];
+    }
+
+    if (argc != 3)
+    {
+	usage();
+    }
+
+    infile = argv[1];
+    outfile = argv[2];
+
+    new_argv[0] = "qpdfjob";
+    new_argv[1] = infile;
+    new_argv[2] = outfile;
+    new_argv[3] = "--linearize";
+    new_argv[4] = "--static-id"; /* for testing only */
+    new_argv[5] = NULL;
+
+    /* See qpdf-job.cc for a C++ example of using the json interface.
+     * To use that from C just like the argv one, call
+     * qpdfjob_run_from_json instead and pass the json string as a
+     * single char const* argument.
+     */
+    r = qpdfjob_run_from_argv(5, new_argv);
+    return r;
+}