That's life. If you have opacity the page has to be flattened before printing. It's not an iText thing, any PDF with opacity behaves the same way.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bill Sanders > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 6:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [iText-questions] PDF Flattening > > I've written this application using Jython to take multiple > TIFF's in a > source directory and create a PDF document and then apply a TIFF as a > watermark. > > The assembled PDF looks fine within Acrobat Pro, but when > printing from > Acrobat under Windows to a file, the message "Flattening" > apears and causes > the whole print process to crawl. If I remove the > setFillOpacity(.5), the > TIFF being applied as a watermark overlays the page, which is > expected and > the printing message "Flattening" does not appear and the job RIP's to > PostScript very quickly. > > The source PDF with the concatenated TIFF's prints fine also > without the > overlay. This problem only appears when using the > setFillOpacity method. > > Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated. > > <Jython code> > iTotalPages = reader.getNumberOfPages() > > # Creation of a document-object > document = Document(PageSize.LETTER, 0, 0, 0, 0) > writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, > FileOutputStream(strPdfTemp)) > > document.open() > gs1 = PdfGState() > > # Set the opacity to 50 > gs1.setFillOpacity(0.5) > > for i in range(iTotalPages): > cb = writer.getDirectContent() > cb.setGState(gs1) > cb.addImage(watermark) > > page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, i+1) > > cb.addTemplate(page, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0) > > document.newPage() > document.close() > > > > Regards, > > Bill Sanders > NearStar, Inc. > www.nearstar.com > Office: (972) 355-2236 x206 > NearStar Technical Support: (972) 355-2236 x202 > > **CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE** > The information is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is > addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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