Jen Debroni wrote: > "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 :( ...
You have the photo hosted on a photo server and you complain about iText being slow??? The bottle neck isn't iText, but the very expensive operation fetching the image from that server using an InputStream in addition to the transmission time (connection speed?) and the IO on the disk. Speed will increase if you get the bytes of the image first and then feed them to the Image object (because iText opens the stream more than once), but fetching the image from a local resource will be the fastest solution. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
