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---------------------------------------- > From: > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:24:05 -0800 > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Mission-critical pdf with thousands of > statement of accounts / Design considerations to be verified by the experts > > I would examine the fact that you intend on using PDF in a mission critical > application dealing with print. In my experience in the high-end print Well, at least feeding a printer suggests human readability as a goal. LOL. Often it seems people generate huge PDF files thinking they have used some modern standard and are therefore doing good but they end up taking out computer readable information and even impeding human readability in many cases due to size and bw needs when formatting may be extraneous and just an expensive nicety. > Within the insurance industry, it would be much more common to have a > dual-batch processing model where statements are rendered simultaneously to > PDF for emailing/archiving and to Postscript or AFP for batch print. > At least in this usage, making a single pdf where it is possible for the printer to re-use things that occur a zillion times makes sense instead of sending the same logo in thousands of smaller files for each statement. I don't understand the paper handling mechanics or any of the dead tree stuff. My concern is creating a single huge pdf that has less information than the source data and is difficult to use for online viewing. > Kevin Brown > _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9690331&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
