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Tweak wording on unreferenced objects in qdf.rst 

...based on a debian bug report.
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Jay Berkenbilt 2024-04-13 19:21:44 -04:00
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@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ nothing generally ever references it by number.
It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files without
messing up object numbering, but if you remove all references to an
object, you can run qpdf on the file (after running
:command:`fix-qdf`), and qpdf will omit the now-orphaned
object.
object without removing the object itself (by removing all indirect
objects that point to it), this will leave the object unreferenced.
Then you can run qpdf on the file (after running :command:`fix-qdf`),
and qpdf will omit the now-orphaned object.
When :command:`fix-qdf` is run, it goes through the file
and recomputes the following parts of the file: