Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. I experiemnted around with
addImage() and came to the same conclusion, but I wasn't sure if this was a
bug or a feature (in other words: I wasn't sure if this was the official way or
not), but now that I know it is, I can start optimizing my code!
Thanks a lot!
Rog
Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
> Roger Misteli wrote:
>> Hiyas
>>
>> I have a document with, say, 2000 pages and on each page is a little image.
>> The image is the same over all the 2000 pages. Now, if I simply add the
>> picture to the document using PdfContentByte and addImage() I get the
>> desired result, but the same image is written 2000 times and blows up the
>> document size.
>> Is there a possibility using Watermarks or Templates how I could add it just
>> one time and let the other images simply point to the existing picture?
>
> Yes,
> there is a huge difference between:
>
> Image img = new Image("my_image.pdf");
> for (int i = 0; i < 2000; i++) {
> addImage(img); // your custom method that adds an image
> document.newPage();
> }
>
> and
>
> for (int i = 0; i < 2000; i++) {
> Image img = new Image("my_image.pdf");
> addImage(img); // your custom method that adds an image
> document.newPage();
> }
>
> In the first sample, the image bytes are added only once.
> In the second sample, they are added 2000 times.
> On page 449-450 of the book you get an idea of the
> amount of bytes you can save ;-)
> br,
> Bruno
>
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