At 02:20 PM 4/4/2003 -0800, Rich McAneny wrote:
True, this does force ADOBE to regenerate this information.
Actually, that's the whole issue - it does NOT force Acrobat
(Adobe is a company, they make many products). SOME versions of Adobe
Acrobat will respect the /NeedAppearance key, ot
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> (Disclaimer: First I must admit my knowledge of PDF is
> limited and I have not
(Disclaimer: First I must admit my knowledge of PDF is
limited and I have not worked with it for a year or
more, since I originally implemented it.)
True, this does force ADOBE to regenerate this
information. Although, loading on the client takes a
lot less than the 10-12 seconds it takes on the
At 01:10 PM 4/4/2003 -0800, Rich McAneny wrote:
In working with another PDF package, I found that
there is a PDF value(?) called:
/NeedAppearances true
which I needed to add to the AcroForm Object. (This
caused the Appearances to be rebuilt by PDF.
Using NeedAppearances is BAD - it's behav
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> I'm not flattening anything at that point. But when I tried adding the
> fields one by one, i tried to comment out onl
At 04:57 PM 4/3/2003 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using I-text to merge data into a pdf file using the fdfReader. This
works fine, but the problem i'm facing is that it's very slow.
i've noticed the same thing, and am looking at where the problem
lies...Are you also using flattening
I'm not flattening anything at that point. But when I tried adding the
fields one by one, i tried to comment out only the setfield. Then
I realized that it was only this method that was really wasting time in any
greater extent. I used a hashmap containing fieldsname
and fieldvalue pairs and set
>From what you say it takes 15 seconds to read a document, set 40 fields and
write the document back to disk. In pdf there's always lots of work to do to
keep the structure. I'm sure that a dedicated C program would be faster.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
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