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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henning Vortisch
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:03
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Subject: [iText-questions] (no subject)
I wrote a program to create businesscard from xml and impose them on one
page.
It was very comfortable by using the itext-library.
Now some Questions, because i want to write an imposition-programm that will
impose parts of ppml-jobs only using pdf for offsetprinting and
digitalprinting.
Is the library (pdfReader) able to handle very huge files to combine them on
one page.
As long as you have memory and the file size is below 2G. The memory used depends on the pdf but as the streams are always kept on disk it's not that bad. If for example you have a brochure with 20 images, each with 50M, the images stay on disk and won't take space in memory.
Are there methods in the pdfReader to read and set the media-, crop-, clip-,
bleed- and artbox of imported pages.
This can be set directly in the page dictionary.
I would be very usefull to get in an easy way information obout imbedded
fonts, pictures and colors in an imported page. (little preflighting)
There's a tool in itextpdf.sf.net to get the font list, type, embedded status, subset, etc. It's also possible to get the picture types, raw size and colorspace (not for inline pictures) but takes some work. To get information on colors used requires parsing of the content. Nothing impossible but a lot of work. Maybe you can use jpedal for the images.
May be its only few work for the author of the programm because he knows the
library very well.
This is not a trivial change.
If there aren't methods in the pdfReader or importedPage I will try to do it
by mythelf after analysing the code of the library and studiing the
pdf-manual from adobe.
It will cost a lot of my time.
Unless you want to do it for fun, starting from scratch will take you a long, long time.
If I will program the changes, is there a possibility to implement them in
the official Library?
Of course!
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
