"Does this point to some other machine? Or a local file on disk somewhere? "
This URL points to a photo hosted by our photo server - this is the only way to access these images unfortunately. However, do you think it would help to compress the image somehow before calling image.getInstance()? Caching does no good as there will very rarely be repetition in the images used :( ... -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Image-Speed-tp2230840p2230889.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/