Hi all,
I'm working on a report generator that uses iText to generate PDF files. The
content of the individual pages is composed by first printing a template, which
is read from another PDF using PdfWriter.getImportedPage() followed by
PdfContentByte.addTemplate(); then, the actual data are printed on top of the
template using the usual PdfContentByte methods. Repeat for each page.
All this works fine, except for one thing: the final reports consist of about
80% font data. Simply opening and then saving them in Acrobat will shrink them
considerably, sometimes by more than 50%. Apparently, there are a lot of
duplicated fonts in the generated PDFs, but I don't understand how they get
there.
The templates I use for the individual pages do not contain any embedded fonts;
when I use a font in the code that populates the data, I'll create it with the
BaseFont.EMBEDDED flag, but from the Javadocs, it is my understanding that
those fonts should only get embedded once. Could it be the process of reading
the templates that is causing the same set of fonts to be embedded over and
over?
Thanks for any insights!
- Thomas
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