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Tweak wording on unreferenced objects in qdf.rst
...based on a debian bug report.
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| @@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ nothing generally ever references it by number. | @@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ nothing generally ever references it by number. | ||
| 84 | 84 | ||
| 85 | It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files without | 85 | It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files without |
| 86 | messing up object numbering, but if you remove all references to an | 86 | messing up object numbering, but if you remove all references to an |
| 87 | -object, you can run qpdf on the file (after running | ||
| 88 | -:command:`fix-qdf`), and qpdf will omit the now-orphaned | ||
| 89 | -object. | 87 | +object without removing the object itself (by removing all indirect |
| 88 | +objects that point to it), this will leave the object unreferenced. | ||
| 89 | +Then you can run qpdf on the file (after running :command:`fix-qdf`), | ||
| 90 | +and qpdf will omit the now-orphaned object. | ||
| 90 | 91 | ||
| 91 | When :command:`fix-qdf` is run, it goes through the file | 92 | When :command:`fix-qdf` is run, it goes through the file |
| 92 | and recomputes the following parts of the file: | 93 | and recomputes the following parts of the file: |