Before you close the stamper/reader - add:
reader.removeAnnotations();
reader.removeUnusedObjects();
stamper.setFullCompression();
Sean
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 ??
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