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What Does "Rasterized" Mean for a PDF?
A rasterized PDF page has been converted from scalable vector/text content into a fixed grid of pixels — the same transformation a screenshot applies to whatever it captures.
"Rasterize" describes a specific, one-way conversion that comes up in PDF-to-image tools. Here's what changes, and what's lost, when it happens.
What changes during compression?
PDFPilot can render pages as images when compressing. This may reduce an image-heavy file, but the smaller result can lose selectable text and links. The combined workflows ask you to accept this trade-off and keep the first-step PDF if compression would make it larger.
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