This is not about general coding philosophy or the merits of PDFs. I am in an iText forum specifically because I need to produce a PDF. I always evaluate what the customers needs and wants are to produce the proper output. If I didn't want a PDF, I wouldn't be here. End of story.
In my opinion, one has to balance coding with resources. I've been on servers where developers don't do this, resulting in server crashes and poor performance. I don't like it so I always try to understand what is going on under the covers to figure out where basic intelligent tradeoffs can be made. Yes, there are different techniques that one can use to achieve this balance and we can have endless discussions about that. But not now. I am nowhere near ready to get into advanced techniques in Java or looking for bottlenecks buried deep in the server, especially since I'm on a closed server with very limited access. Not being a Java programmer and being new to iText, I'm at a big disadvantage. I was hoping I could treat iText more like a black box and, with a basic understanding, use it efficiently. I was trying to ask a specific technical question targeted at memory utilization of PDFReader and PDFStamper. Seemed pretty obvious to me that since I was making two passes there was a tradeoff here. Somewhere we went off the tracks. I am very disappointed there isn't technical expertise available on this on forum that can give an overview of the process and answer the question. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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/
