I think you clearly have asked the right question, Mike - what is the purpose 
of the document? 

If it is to be printed (either now or some point in the future), then there is 
no question that PDF is the correct format.  If the format of the content is 
mandated by law (ala government forms), then there is no question that PDF is 
the correct format.  If the content is to be viewed by some unknown set of 
users on an unknown set of computers, then again, PDF is the correct format.

BUT if the data is for computer consumption at some point, then PDF may not be 
proper - or at least PDF w/o the proper structure/tagging.

So yes, it's clearly worth asking the question and would love to know more.

FYI - on a related note, Adobe sponsored a conference last week in DC about 
"open government" as part of its work with the US Gov't on such initiatives.  
You can read more at <http://www.adobe.com/opengov/>.  A big part of this is 
working with folks on the proper production of PDFs containing rich, 
extractable content.

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Marchywka [mailto:marchy...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:47 AM
To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Mission-critical pdf with thousands of statement 
of accounts / Design considerations to be verified by the experts




hoping to elicit input from Leonard but I have been fighting 
a bunch of bloated web sites that impede automation lately and this
request sounds like it is headed down that path. Since I have
accused adobe of being a big offender in this regard, let me 
supply some additional thoughts for comment for rebuttal.




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> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:25:52 +0100
> From:
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] Mission-critical pdf with thousands of statement 
> of> 1. Requirements
> PDF includes up to 3'500 statement of accounts, a statement of account can 
> have up to 50 pages, we do not expect that the PDF has more than 20'000 
> pages. A typical batch-run creates a PDF with 3'500 statement of accounts 
> with a maximum of 3 pages per statement of account. The parameters for the 
> batch job are: range 

So, what HUMAN will actually read this? Wouldn't you be better off publishing 
something machine readable,  maybe
some summary statistics and a zip file containing the database to let an 
interested reader run his own queries and analyses on the DB? When is the last 
time someone you knew read and understood 20,000 pages of accounting 
information? Have you ever tried to open a 20,000 page PDF file on your home 
PC, or even download one? You 
could probably find a free DB to give to users and write a front end rather
than making a dead-end pdf file too big for anyone to read. You can
convert the account info to text or xml for that matter and combine
a db with a report generator. If you must generate a 20,000 page PDF, do
you plan on adding information to allow users to extract the numbers in
a useful format? 






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