Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite Linearize PDF API

Optimize PDFs for fast web viewing

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POST /operation/linearizePDF Adobe Creative Suite Linearize PDF #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Adobe Creative Suite Adobe PDF Services Linearize PDF API
  description: The Adobe PDF Services API provides cloud-based tools for creating, converting, combining, compressing, and extracting content from PDF documents. Part of the Adobe Acrobat Services platform, it supports operations such as Office-to-PDF, HTML-to-PDF, PDF-to-Word, PDF-to-Excel, OCR, accessibility auto-tagging, document generation from templates, and PDF linearization. The API follows an asynchronous job model where operations are submitted and polled for completion.
  version: 1.0.0
  termsOfService: https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html
  contact:
    name: Adobe Developer Support
    url: https://developer.adobe.com/support/
  license:
    name: Adobe Developer Terms
    url: https://www.adobe.com/legal/developer-terms.html
servers:
- url: https://pdf-services.adobe.io
  description: Adobe PDF Services API production server
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Linearize PDF
  description: Optimize PDFs for fast web viewing
paths:
  /operation/linearizePDF:
    post:
      operationId: linearizePDF
      summary: Adobe Creative Suite Linearize PDF
      description: Linearizes (web-optimizes) a PDF document so that the first page can be displayed in a browser before the entire file has downloaded. This is also known as fast web view optimization.
      tags:
      - Linearize PDF
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/LinearizePDFRequest'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Linearize PDF operation accepted
          headers:
            Location:
              description: URL to poll for operation status
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OperationSubmitted'
        '400':
          description: Bad request - invalid asset reference
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized - invalid or missing bearer token
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  schemas:
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Standard error response
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: Machine-readable error code
          example: example_value
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message
          example: example_value
        requestId:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the failed request
          example: asset_abc123
    LinearizePDFRequest:
      type: object
      description: Request body for linearizing a PDF for fast web view
      required:
      - assetID
      properties:
        assetID:
          type: string
          description: Asset ID of the PDF to linearize
          example: urn:aaid:AS:UE1:23c30ee0-2e4d-46d6-87f2-087832fca718
    OperationSubmitted:
      type: object
      description: Response returned when an operation has been accepted
      properties:
        jobID:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the submitted operation job
          example: urn:aaid:AS:UE1:operation:abc123
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: OAuth 2.0 access token from Adobe IMS

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