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> 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
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> 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
>

                                          
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