after flattening a PDF with lots of Fields (in our case 1200) the resulting PDF is quite big.
That's not uncommon for flattened PDFs to be large - esp when you have an enormous amount of fields.
If you save a sample flattened PDF (1200 Fields, 1.1 MB) with Acrobat Full-Version to a Postscript-File (770 KB) and then convert it back again to PDF with Distiller, the resulting PDF is only about 80 KB, but looks identical to the flattened PDF!
It may LOOK identical - but it's NOT!
Refrying is BAD! See <http://www.pdfsages.com/blog/archives/cat_pdf.html#12> for details.
Is there any way to optimize the resulting PDF regarding the size with iText?
Not really, but there are 3rd party PDF compression/optimization tools that can help!
Leonard
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