> First, I get a hit on the external PDF for each and every page. I've had a > look at the PreloadPDF and it looks like it's meant to be caching, but > apparently not. Is there some configuration I'm missing for this? >
Ah hah. Turns out I was looking at the trunk version of fop-pdf-images when I saw the caching stuff. That was removed before version 2.2 was tagged. Going back to ticket FOP-2135 it looks like this "document level" cache was added to reduce the document size, not avoid repeated hits on remote resources. Caching the remote resource is handled by org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader.cache.ImageCache, which in turn checks isCachable() on the image. ImagePDF returns false for that :( Does anyone have any insights into this? Is there any way to make a PDF image cacheable? Second, if I rename the external PDF I get an error as expected. However > renaming it back doesn't seem to be picked up immediately: it takes one or > more runs before it's found again. > Again, this is down to ImageCache, which is keeping track of invalid URLs for 60s. Matt
