Hi All I have been using the itext lib in a app for a year or so typically to merge db content in to pdf form field documents created with adobe acrobat. Recently we have been merging to some rather large data and the size of the pdf document has now become an issue Today I looked at some simple pdf document & created some metrics PDF flatten document after form field merge 341K PdfStamper.FreeTextFlattening = True PdfStamper.FormFlattening = True PDF document after using the AdobeAcrobat Tool-Optimized-Optimize the Pdf for fast web view 179K
base on comparison between AdobeAcrobat -Tools-Optimize-Audit Space Usage before /after the objects "X Objects forms" show almost a 300% reduction 231K-78K A similar sized reduction was observed with other itext generated pdf that were run through the itext pdfstamper & acrobat optimization process Does anyone have experience with what setting can be applied to pdfstamper to create a similar file size reductions ? Its would appear that the x object refs that the forms fields are flattened into is the issue here can anyone else confirm this is a know issue?? Is this a bug or feature request that should be submitted to a the itext bug tracker ?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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/