Gents, We're using PdfSmartCopy to concatenate documents, and one thing that is becoming a serious problem for us is that imported Font and FontDescriptor objects are being replicated on page import. Only FontFile stream objects are cached and re-referenced.
Specifically, we are concatenating several thousand single page documents that contain only two Base-14 fonts, Helvetica and Helvetica-Bold, with uniform encoding. After the concat, the font objects are replicated for each page import resulting in thousands of redundant objects. This, of course, adds to the size of the output, but that's not our concern - it's what it does to conversion engines and RIP font-ends on large printers. When you convert that PDF to PostScript you will typically end up with thousands of embedded fonts as there is no easy way for the conversion engine to know that the font definitions have been replicated. In some cases, this is an absolute killer. Would it be possible to enhance PdfSmartCopy/PdfWriter such that replicated Font and FontDescriptor objects reference just the original object as opposed to being replicated? It seems like this would be a worth while enhancement that would serve the community well in the long run. Thanks - Gylfi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
