The information you provide: - you have an app that we know nothing about - the app is fed with data, that we know nothing about, from a db.
What do you want me to guess? The only thing I can tell you is that you'll find the all the pdf information in the pdf reference at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/sdk/public/docs/PDFReference15_v5. pdf. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Sternbergh, Cornell > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] PDF file on steroids; some more info... > > Some more information... > > We fell back and faxed the document, which uses a soon to be obsolete > part of our system. This generates the document in Powerbuilder, > creates the file as a TIFF and then faxes the TIFF. The resulting > document is 5 pages long, other 5 page documents we create are about > 55K. We captured the TIFF and converted it to PDF (with > PDFWriter) and > created a file 138K large. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sternbergh, Cornell > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 14:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] PDF file on steroids > > > Good Afternoon > > This afternoon we had a problem. We created a 38 Meg PDF which > shouldn't be more than 136K. > > We have a Java process which reads data from a database and > formats into > a PDF. In the past 9 days we've created 9,700 documents, the > largest is > 136K, the smallest is 24K. 38M is way out of line. We use iText to > generate the PDF. > > As we've created more than 120,000 documents with this > process without a > hitch, we don't expect so much a coding problem as some data related > problem. > > And I need to get a lead on where to start. > > This came to our attention because a second process, which prints or > emails the PDF, got hung up on this file, and distribution of other > files got held up. The file size was approximately 37.9M. > > We tried to open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat, which claims the > file needs > repair and then says it can't be repaired. > > We deleted the document from the queue and deleted the file, and the > process continuted handling other files. Someone requested that this > document be re-printed, which caused the process to recreate it. This > time, it was approximately 38M. > > First we note that we've created two PDF's from the same data, but the > size of the resulting files are different, not to mention way > too large. > > Second, we observe, from looking at the data in the database, > that this > document's data is almost identical to another, successfully generated > document, except that one field has more characters in it. > This string > would be retrieved from the database (DB2) and then put into > a cell in a > table. Could it be possible that we've blown a length limitation on > table cells? > > Is there a convenient way for a human to understand the contents of a > PDF file? We opened it in UltraEdit (a text/hex editor) and note that > there are no strings which correspond to the text of the > document. I do > observe ASCII strings such as (0Ah refers to hex 0A): > /Subtype /Image0Ah > /Type /XObject0Ah > /Filter /FlateDecode0Ah > /Width 2830Ah > /Height 2980Ah > /BitsPerComponent 80Ah > /Length 55140Ah > /ColorSpace > which I assume to be PDF commands or attributes. > > How are the strings of characters which make up the actual > text stored? > > TIA > Cornell Sternbergh > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=ick > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=ick > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=click _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
