That is called Linearization (or "Fast Web View") in the Acrobat  
UI.   It can ONLY be done through the use of a fully written &  
properly prepared physical PDF file (which iText doesn't offer at  
this time) OR a custom web server component to handle the "byte  
serving".

Leonard


On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:20 PM, L Lewis wrote:
> I've noticed that some large PDF documents are streamed to the  
> browser's PDF
> plug-in. That is, you can start reading the PDF document before the  
> entire
> thing is loaded. How is this done? Is this a function of the PDF   
> plug-in
> itself? Does the iText, etc. do this? We are building our PDFs  
> dynamically
> into a byte[], then writing it to the response stream, if this makes a
> difference.
>
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