Thanks for the information, Leonard. Interesting, I've never heard of that
(Linearization or Fast Web View). Can you tell me any more about the custom
web server requirements?

Lonnie


Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> 
> That is called Linearization (or "Fast Web View") in the Acrobat  
> UI.   It can ONLY be done through the use of a fully written &  
> properly prepared physical PDF file (which iText doesn't offer at  
> this time) OR a custom web server component to handle the "byte  
> serving".
> 
> Leonard
> 
> 
> On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:20 PM, L Lewis wrote:
>> I've noticed that some large PDF documents are streamed to the  
>> browser's PDF
>> plug-in. That is, you can start reading the PDF document before the  
>> entire
>> thing is loaded. How is this done? Is this a function of the PDF   
>> plug-in
>> itself? Does the iText, etc. do this? We are building our PDFs  
>> dynamically
>> into a byte[], then writing it to the response stream, if this makes a
>> difference.
>>
>> \
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