That's a good idea, throwing exceptions can be time consuming. I think
I'll put an extra parameter in BaseFont.createFont() to have it return
null instead of throwing an exception.
Paulo
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of David Thielen
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:44 PM
> To: itext
> Subject: [iText-questions] Feature suggestion
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> Note: - this code is from the iTextDotNet version so it is a
> bit out of date from the latest Java version. But the version
> of iText I have has this same issue.
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> When you use the font Arial for example, it first looks for
> Arial and when that fails, it throws a DocumentException. It
> then looks for arial.ttf, finds that, and returns the font.
> On .NET at least the throw/catch of the exception was taking
> a lot of time - about 80% of the PDF generation time in the
> sample we were running. I changed it to the attached code and
> our PDF generation is now 5 times faster on .NET.
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> The attachment is a zip file.
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> Thanks - dave
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> David Thielen
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> www.windwardreports.com
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> 303-499-2544 x1185
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> Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm
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