You'll have to use the two stage approach. Paulo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Okken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:14 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Duplicated fonts in iText-generated PDF OK, I'm now using PdfSmartCopy. What I'm doing is sending the output from the original PdfWriter to a ByteArrayOutputStream, and I then read that using another PdfReader and write it to a PdfSmartCopy. Works great; the files don't shrink quite as much as with Acrobat 8, but pretty close. I have one other question: PdfSmartCopy is a subclass of PdfWriter, which made me think maybe I can simply replace my original PdfWriter by a PdfSmartCopy, and thus avoid the two-stage approach. However, when I do that, the addTemplate() call does not seem to work (at the end, I get an exception saying the document has no pages). When I use addPage() instead, the template pages get copied to the PdfSmartCopy, but then the text that I'm printing on top of the template does not show up. Is it possible to use PdfSmartCopy as a replacement for PdfWriter somehow, or do I have to use the two-stage approach? Thanks for your help. Great product! - Thomas Paulo Soares wrote: iText doesn't do any object optimization except in PdfSmartCopy. Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Okken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 10:25 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Duplicated fonts in iText-generated PDF 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 --------------------------------- Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
