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Old 11-21-2015, 06:15 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
It would seem that Ghostscript is saving the image rather than copying the binary data into a file. Saving a lossless image will essentially create the same image but a lossy image will certainly change if you create it instead of copying the binary. There are programs that know how to copy the binary. Also copying a binary does not require a license for the format.

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AFAIK, cpdf and pdftk do give you a copy if the format is supported. But on this file, even Acrobat outputs a slightly inferior image on extracted pages, as do the other two, so it must be the codec. If a PDF has tiff images, the image quality of extracted pages is identical.
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