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>Aandi  Do you mean exporting the PDF file to PS format and then Distilling it back to PDF ? 

Yes.
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>I have tried that . It is however removing the Link information !! . 

It would. But I can't think of any ready way to mend it except...

>What I found after some doing some research is that the pdf files have 're' , 'm' operators inside BT and ET  operators ( when opening PDF files in ASCII mode ) . If I manually remove all such operators with there operands and succeding fill / stroke operators within BT and ET operators then the file works fine . With links .  

If you are fortunate enough to have uncompressed PDFs you could do
this. Bear in mind that such editing damages the file. Open in Acrobat
and save the file to fix that.
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>But point is how to restore the visual aspect ? .  Adoce 4.0 , 5.0 , Distiller 3.0 using PDF 1.2 / 1.3 specs , creates PDF files which can no more be viewed in such a manner ( everything encrypted ) 

No, there is no encryption, but there is compression. You can turn
that off. Be sure to turn off optimization too.


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