-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 akuehne wrote: > Hi all, > > we are running a free signature verification service ( http://sig-check.eu/ > ) for PKCS7 files. Now we are on the way to support signed PDFs. > > A major design goal is NOT to transfer users documents to our server but to > do the hashing within the client's environment using an applet. This works > like a charm using iText, but for an applet context the iText.jar is a bit > bloated. So I tried to strip all fonts and other 'useless' stuff and made it > down to 800 kB. Still heavy load for slow connections ! > > Does anyone has experience in tailoring iText for a very special / limited > purpose ? Or is every effort to shrink it further than that doomed to fail > ?
Have you tried to use shrinking tools such as ProGuard to remove the unused code? This should significantly reduce the jar size if you're only using iText for signature verification. Xavier - -- Xavier Le Vourch Brittany Software, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key (ID 0x896C5947): http://brittanysoftware.com/gpg_key.asc Key fingerprint: 73B3 6370 B8C5 4325 F2D8 4115 0372 5805 896C 5947 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHg8NDA3JYBYlsWUcRAl48AJsFgev29zQAaCrKlfg/bpfsr09pTgCglziV hW3C2nRbxTbAJeOsFA1bNxo= =/d7x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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/
