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proposed guidelines for OAC/Calisphere hosted PDF submissions

PDF guidelines for access

Set MIME type to applicaiton/octet-stream to trigger a download, rather than displaying the PDF in the browser plugin. (This would make web-optimized / linerized PDFs moot; but it might be a good practice to use this feature.)

Information density of PDF files should not exceed one Mega(1024^2)-byte per page (the inverse should not be lower than 1 page per MB), with an ideal density of less than 0.5 MB/page or more than the inverse 2 pages per MB.

Display page count as well as file size, as the file size might not convey as much meaning to users as "114 pages".

file MB pages inverse-density density
bb31753800-ark-20775-bb31753800-1-1.ebook.pdf 11.68 MB 118 pages 10.11 pages per MB 0.10 MB per page
bb31753800-ark-20775-bb31753800-1-1.optimized.pdf 93.10 MB 118 pages 1.27 pages per MB 0.79 MB per page
bb31753800-ark-20775-bb31753800-1-1.pdf 93.12 MB 118 pages 1.27 pages per MB 0.79 MB per page
bb31753800-ark-20775-bb31753800-1-1.printer.pdf 115.07 MB 118 pages 1.03 pages per MB 0.98 MB per page
bb31753800-ark-20775-bb31753800-1-1.trick.pdf 59.75 MB 118 pages 1.98 pages per MB 0.51 MB per page
bb66225101-ark-20775-bb66225101-1-1.ebook.pdf 18.72 MB 101 pages 5.40 pages per MB 0.19 MB per page
bb66225101-ark-20775-bb66225101-1-1.optimized.pdf 105.22 MB 101 pages 0.96 pages per MB 1.04 MB per page
bb66225101-ark-20775-bb66225101-1-1.pdf 105.24 MB 101 pages 0.96 pages per MB 1.04 MB per page
bb66225101-ark-20775-bb66225101-1-1.printer.pdf 108.01 MB 101 pages 0.94 pages per MB 1.07 MB per page
bb66225101-ark-20775-bb66225101-1-1.trick.pdf 52.48 MB 101 pages 1.92 pages per MB 0.52 MB per page
bk0003d6t3n-FID1.ebook.pdf 6.44 MB 114 pages 17.69 pages per MB 0.06 MB per page
bk0003d6t3n-FID1.pdf 15.31 MB 114 pages 7.45 pages per MB 0.13 MB per page
bk0003d6t3n-FID1.printer.pdf 14.86 MB 114 pages 7.67 pages per MB 0.13 MB per page
bk0003d6t3n-FID1.trick.pdf 14.36 MB 114 pages 7.94 pages per MB 0.13 MB per page
bk001533p5d-FID1.ebook.pdf 38.30 MB 189 pages 4.93 pages per MB 0.20 MB per page
bk001533p5d-FID1.pdf 58.95 MB 189 pages 3.21 pages per MB 0.31 MB per page
bk001533p5d-FID1.printer.pdf 89.74 MB 189 pages 2.11 pages per MB 0.47 MB per page
bk001533p5d-FID1.trick.pdf 69.48 MB 189 pages 2.72 pages per MB 0.37 MB per page
cubanc6714_b139j10_0005_2.ebook.pdf 86.54 MB 227 pages 2.62 pages per MB 0.38 MB per page
cubanc6714_b139j10_0005_2.optimized.pdf 475.37 MB 227 pages 0.48 pages per MB 2.09 MB per page
cubanc6714_b139j10_0005_2.pdf 475.48 MB 227 pages 0.48 pages per MB 2.09 MB per page
cubanc6714_b139j10_0005_2.printer.pdf 168.86 MB 227 pages 1.34 pages per MB 0.74 MB per page
cubanc6714_b139j10_0005_2.trick.pdf 68.28 MB 227 pages 3.32 pages per MB 0.30 MB per page
cubanc6714_b277t01_0846.ebook.pdf 13.59 MB 46 pages 3.39 pages per MB 0.30 MB per page
cubanc6714_b277t01_0846.optimized.pdf 91.42 MB 46 pages 0.50 pages per MB 1.99 MB per page
cubanc6714_b277t01_0846.pdf 91.46 MB 46 pages 0.50 pages per MB 1.99 MB per page
cubanc6714_b277t01_0846.printer.pdf 29.26 MB 46 pages 1.57 pages per MB 0.64 MB per page
cubanc6714_b277t01_0846.trick.pdf 11.07 MB 46 pages 4.16 pages per MB 0.24 MB per page
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