Hi Paulo/Bruno, You guys have been really awesome and helpful through out our PDF report generation development. The development is totally completed and we are doing some load/stress/performance testing for PDF reports. We are encountering lot of issues during out tests in the test environments.
Issues like, 1. Most of these reports are more than 500 pages. Depending on the criteria that customer had selected in the UI report may vary from 500 - 3000 pages of PDF. what happens now is that it takes around 15 mins for this 3000 page report and around 7 mins for 500 page report and during the PDF report generation process it consumes all the heap and load averages on the servers goes more than 7.0. Everybody in my team says that this is unacceptable and I have been really struggling to make them understand that PDF generation is always a complex process because it has to generate binary data. 2. I have done everything that I could to improve from application code perspective but there is no big change in performance. So that's the reason I thought I will send you both an email and explain the issues that we have over here and get some good ideas. We have invested lot of time into this project for PDF report generation and so I have lot of pressure from my management to find a solution. We use to have a web reporting tool from IBI called webfocus for PDF report generation and that takes only 50% of the time that iText takes. We are getting rid of webfocus and converting all the reports to stored procedures. I have couple more questions, can we generate PDF report in chunks what I mean is generate 20 pages at a time and stream it back and then generate next 20 pages some thing like that?? And also is it better to generate a PDF report dynamically or write it to a temporary location and then read it from there??? I will really wait for your reply. Thanks & regards, Madhu Vempati. -----Original Message----- From: Bruno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [iText-questions] PDF overlapping text in IE Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi Paulo, > > I really appreciate your help regarding all the PDF issues we had till > now. Just another question, we need to display URLs or links to download > images from a server(for example, like a check or receipt) within the PDF > document, can you please help us out here and let us know how we can do > that? If you are looking for an iText analogy with <A HREF="...">, you can use the Anchor-object. If you want to change the appearance of the clickable text, try experimenting with the Font. see http://www.lowagie.com/iText/tutorial/ch03.html#anchor for more info. Bruno ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
