You may increase the speed if you are filling the same form repeatedely with 
AcroFields.setFieldCache() and the copying constructor of PdfReader, see 
http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=249.

Paulo

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From: Azùa Giovanni (KSXD 32) [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:54 PM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] performance question


Hello Paulo,

I am perfectly aware of the benefits of iText, that's why I proposed it for our 
project in the first place but it can be hard to convince the team lead and 
colleagues to switch to a framework when it comes at a performance toll of 30% 
overhead for the use-case at hand.

I didn't mean to start a flame but was actually fishing for rewrite 
alternatives to improve the performance of our use-case ...

Best regards,
Giovanni

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From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] performance question

Hmm, there are lies, damn lies and statistics. While I don't dispute the 30% 
let's see the probable causes for this:

- iText tries to do things correctly avoiding to cut corners that will come and 
bite your later. Metadata writing, appearance generation and so on.

- iText is a generic PDF library. It reads, writes and modifies PDFs. Any 
library designed with a narrower purpose can optimize the interested areas to 
perform better.

- iText comes with source and can be extended, modified, altered. This implies 
that a sensible and probably heavier structure must be in place to allow that. 
If you have a closed source library with just a single purpose things can be 
done faster as that's all it's going to do.

- com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamperImpl.close() is where everything is written 
to file, if you avoid calling this nothing will come out.

- There are some speed and memory improvements in the pipeline but I don't know 
how much % improvement will result or in what areas.

Paulo


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