Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Berk
of MB, I'll explore other solutions. I'm curious jason From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 5:15 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern If you're

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Paulo Soares
here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern I understandin the meantime, could you answer this question: if I create one PDF and add 100,000 pages, what will it's file size be relative to creating 100,000 PDFs and using PdfSmartCopy to concat them together? If the difference is a few

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
How does SmartCopy determine “image equality”? From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:55 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern In PdfsmartCopy if the images are the same only one instance will be used

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Berk
From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:55 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern In PdfsmartCopy if the images are the same only one instance will be used but subset fonts won't

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Paulo Soares
PdfSmartCopy only compares streams. Paulo From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 6:13 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern How does SmartCopy determine image

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Paulo Soares
: [iText-questions] design pattern Yeah, I'm crafting one nowbut an answer to the question would tell me if my test followed suit. Memory isn't an issue on my hardware...so I'd sacrifice it for speed/resulting file sizeand in the end, a repeatable and well understood process trumps everything

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Brute force and definitely leads to poorer performance. Sometime we should talk about how to optimize such things… From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:57 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-22 Thread Gylfi Ingvason
_ From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:55 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern In PdfsmartCopy if the images are the same only one instance will be used but subset fonts won't be merged

[iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-21 Thread Jason Berk
hello all. looking for advice... my credit union has 60K members. I need to produce a single PDF for each member that uses low res images (96 DPI). This is know as the E-Statement. For about half of the members, I also need to produce a print statement version which uses 300 DPI images.

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-21 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Why are the pages images and not real text and vector objects? If you want small files, DON'T use raster images! From: Jason Berk [mailto:jb...@purdueefcu.com] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:47 PM To: iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] design pattern hello all

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-21 Thread Jason Berk
. Thanks, Jason -Original Message- From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com] Sent: Sun 3/21/2010 1:05 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern Why are the pages images and not real text and vector objects? If you want

Re: [iText-questions] design pattern

2010-03-21 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
explore other solutions. Thanks, Jason -Original Message- From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com] Sent: Sun 3/21/2010 1:05 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] design pattern Why are the pages images and not real text and vector