Thomas McKay writes:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas McKay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:43 AM
> To: iText
> Subject: internal representation of pdf document? 
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> Am I missing something or is there no internal representation of the data
> contained in the document? 
> 
> It seems that the document never actually exists in memory but rather a
> listener is registered and this listener controls the internal storage of
> the document's contents.  In the case of the XmlWriter and the PdfWriter
> there is no internal storage but is just written to disk.  True?

In HTML and XML, every iText object such as a Chunk, Phrase, Paragraph,...
is written to the OutputStream AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (at the moment you
add it to the document and the document passes it to its listener).
In PDF, as soon as a page is completed it is sent to the OutputStream.
The same goes for images, fonts,... but not for PdfTemplates.

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