I would examine the fact that you intend on using PDF in a mission critical application dealing with print. In my experience in the high-end print market, with significant experience in insurance and statements, I have never seen a customer desire PDF as the print format output for such an application. Typically, large batch print runs are more suited for Postscript, AFP or PPML where print vendors have optimized the interpretation of the content of such files. These printers stage reusable content in special ways, ripping them to memory and reusing these assets while outputting pages. The key in such print applications is to drive the printer at its highest speed and if the print stream is not optimized, it will not happen. While some printers may also attempt to or have optimized such things for PDF, it is much fewer than have done for these other more widely used print formats.
Within the insurance industry, it would be much more common to have a dual-batch processing model where statements are rendered simultaneously to PDF for emailing/archiving and to Postscript or AFP for batch print. Kevin Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
