tim clark-10 wrote: >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 ? We are faceing the same problem. Actually we are using ColumnText for text-fields and add the Text/(FontSize for it) ourself. This leads in our use-case to smaller pdf-files. >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 ?? -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
