GaneshPrakhya wrote: >Hi Bruno, > >The example you suggested is working fine for me. However, the targent >document was around 4MB in size with 100 pages. > Yes, that's what I meant when I wrote: "There are different ways to achieve this. The most efficient way, would be to retrieve the coordinates of the fields in an onOpenDocument, to add the flattened form in an onStartPage event, and to add the data using a static ColumnText method." If you add the flattened form in an onStartPage event, the data of the 'template' is added only once. This way the filesize is reduced drastically.
>I tried the samething with >same template using PDFLib, the document PDFLib created with 100 pages was >around 150KB. Is there any approach to reduce the size of the document. I >guess the size is due to copying of documents over many pages in the case of > I have separate book examples that demonstrate the separate steps in the process described above, but I still have to make an example that combines everything. Maybe I'll find some time this afternoon. If I do, I'll add it to this page: http://itext.ugent.be/articles/eid-pdf/ and I will let you know through the mailinglist. br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
