iText doesn't process the images. If you use JAI to downsample the
images before adding them to the PDF you'll have the same results.
Paulo
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of chrisbuch
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Difference between itext and adobe
> when creating pdf's
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We want to create a pdf using 8 images. But when creating a
> pdf using itext
> we get a filesize of about 25 MB for one pdf. This is not so
> supprising if
> you take in consideration that we have about 8 images of
> about 4 MB each.
>
> But when we use adobe indesign to do the same thing we get a
> file size of
> about 5 MB. Somehow adobe manages to compress the filesize of the pdf
> without reducing the quality. What is adobe doing that is not
> done in itext.
> Are there any settings or anything else we have missed to
> set, or has adobe
> some compression algorithm that itext don't?
>
> Regards Christian
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