I have a theory that what I'm trying to do isn't supported or recommended but I thought I'd give it a shot.
I have several PDF documents that have 250,000 pages each. The pdf file size averages 400-500MB. All I need is to extract 1-2 pages (sequential) from somewhere inside that document and present a new pdf document with a watermark. The pdfs were created using iText. The latter half of this I have no problems with, it's the reader that I'm struggling with, specifically: reader = New text.pdf.PdfReader(New text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray(src.FullName), Nothing) takes anywhere from 25 minutes to an hour. Now you're probably asking why would anyone create a PDF that large? We've been doing it for about 6 years now and the PDF software we used before iText could extract a page in about 2-3 seconds. I'm assuming that pdfReader is opening the entire file and pre-processing it. Is there a method/property/class I missed that can stop this preprocessing and allow me to go straight to the using selection? Again, this may not be what the reader was designed for and feel free to tell me that. Development environment is iTextSharp 4.1.2 for vb.net / Framework 3.5. Appreciate any suggestions, -Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
