At 07:42 AM 4/18/2006, Bert Vingerhoets wrote:
Our company uses iText for generating PDF documents and we have
noticed that, when embedding fonts, the overhead for creating a new
document is very large. Take a look at the following times (obtained
with test documents containing six different fonts):
small output (139 pages) in a single document:
w/ embedding: 1 sec
w/o embedding: <1 sec
when split into 139 separate PDFs:
w/ embedding (each file is between 40 and 45K in size): 11 sec
w/o embedding (each file is 4K in size): 2 sec
Does this mean that you are writing each page separately AS
YOU GO - or that you are creating a single document and then
splitting it? IF the former, I would recommend the latter since, as
you can from your own numbers, that would be a MUCH faster operation
(and would also lead to smaller output documents).
Also, are you doing FULL embedding or SUBSET
embedding? Full embed of a font is pretty quick - but subsetting is
a potentially complex process and is probably one element slowing you down.
Leonard
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