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Yes it's theoretically quite possible. PDF is designed with extensibility in mind and it's very easy (technology-wise) to introduce new compression formats. The only difficulty is whether collectively we have the willpower to implement this in enough products and ship a new ISO standard.

A less ambitious alternative might be to use something like zopfli. It is totally backwards compatible so it can be used today to compress PDFs better without sacrificing compatibility.



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