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More efficient every day: #Poppler, the #PDF engine used by #Okular, gets the KDE treatment and can now generate documents with embedded forms that can be more than 10 times smaller thanks to a technique called _subsetting_. Watch the video to see how this works.
This feature was implemented by Ojas Maheshwari's during their KDE Google Summer of Code stint.
https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-12-week-13-everything-merged-final-gsoc-blog/
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More efficient every day: #Poppler, the #PDF engine used by #Okular, gets the KDE treatment and can now generate documents with embedded forms that can be more than 10 times smaller thanks to a technique called _subsetting_. Watch the video to see how this works.
This feature was implemented by Ojas Maheshwari's during their KDE Google Summer of Code stint.
https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-12-week-13-everything-merged-final-gsoc-blog/
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Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!: -
More efficient every day: #Poppler, the #PDF engine used by #Okular, gets the KDE treatment and can now generate documents with embedded forms that can be more than 10 times smaller thanks to a technique called _subsetting_. Watch the video to see how this works.
This feature was implemented by Ojas Maheshwari's during their KDE Google Summer of Code stint.
https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-12-week-13-everything-merged-final-gsoc-blog/
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Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!: -
More efficient every day: #Poppler, the #PDF engine used by #Okular, gets the KDE treatment and can now generate documents with embedded forms that can be more than 10 times smaller thanks to a technique called _subsetting_. Watch the video to see how this works.
This feature was implemented by Ojas Maheshwari's during their KDE Google Summer of Code stint.
https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-12-week-13-everything-merged-final-gsoc-blog/
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Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!: -
More efficient every day: #Poppler, the #PDF engine used by #Okular, gets the KDE treatment and can now generate documents with embedded forms that can be more than 10 times smaller thanks to a technique called _subsetting_. Watch the video to see how this works.
This feature was implemented by Ojas Maheshwari's during their KDE Google Summer of Code stint.
https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-12-week-13-everything-merged-final-gsoc-blog/
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Apparently, zlib compression in PDF's aren't good enough any longer so new documents might be Brotli-compressed instead. Not many readers implement it yet, so we better get hacking.
This is built with bubblegum and duct tape.
