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      "alt": "LocalFlux showing Best quality, Balanced, Smallest, and Custom PDF compression presets.",
      "caption": "Balanced is selected for the measured walkthrough."
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      "alt": "LocalFlux rejecting an encrypted PDF and explaining how to proceed.",
      "caption": "The encrypted fixture failed closed and produced no output file."
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      "alt": "Three self-authored PDF fixtures used for the local compression test.",
      "caption": "The fixture set covers text-heavy, image-rich, and already-optimized PDFs without personal data."
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      "caption": "Balanced reduced the text-heavy and image-rich fixtures while preserving the already-optimized file byte for byte."
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      "caption": "An intentionally unoptimized text-heavy PDF used to test structural compression."
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      "alt": "Self-authored four-page image-rich PDF fixture.",
      "caption": "A PDF built from repository-controlled LocalFlux imagery to exercise image optimization."
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      "path": "samples/input/already-optimized-handout.pdf",
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      "alt": "Self-authored five-page PDF optimized before the LocalFlux test.",
      "caption": "The pre-optimized fixture exercises the exact-copy Already optimized safeguard."
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      "path": "samples/output/already-optimized-handout_compressed.pdf",
      "publicPath": "/blog-media/compress-pdf-windows/samples/output/already-optimized-handout_compressed.pdf",
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      "alt": "Exact-copy output of the already-optimized PDF fixture.",
      "caption": "The output matches its source byte for byte because rewriting would not make it smaller."
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