Re: compressing pdf response

2005-09-19 Thread cgray
Hi Sonja, The article below, by Jason Hunter, discusses creating a filter to handle compression. It also has links to samples to download. I haven't used this, but it looks like it might be of help. Carol http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2001/jw-0622-filters-p3.html Sonja Löhr wrote:

RE: compressing pdf response

2005-09-19 Thread Sonja Löhr
indeed both speak German ;-) > -Original Message- > From: cgray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Montag, 19. September 2005 18:58 > To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org > Subject: Re: compressing pdf response > > Hi Sonja, > The article below, by Jason

RE: compressing pdf response

2005-09-19 Thread Zaleski, Matthew \(M.E.\)
Löhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 1:06 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: compressing pdf response Hi, Carol! Thank you. This is exactly the code I use :-) With IE (that is, acrobat inside) I get sometimes the pdf and sometimes a

Re: compressing pdf response

2005-09-19 Thread J.Pietschmann
Sonja Löhr wrote: With IE (that is, acrobat inside) I get sometimes the pdf and sometimes a blank page, after reloading the message about a "damaged file". Firefox (always) complains that the file "doesn't begin with %PDF-" (ok, indeed both speak German ;-) The browser explicitly asks if it wil

Re: compressing pdf response

2005-09-19 Thread JBryant
J.Pietschmann wrote: Also, most of the PDF parts are already compressed (and re-encoded as ASCII85). A secondary compression will probably gain something between 15% and 20% for typical PDF files. Significant improvements are only to be expected in case of large embedded BMP images and in some cas

Re: compressing pdf response

2005-09-19 Thread Sonja Löhr
Thanks to you all! If the improvement is so small I will unplug the filter. Although the browsers do support compression (the filter is checking this), the outcome seems to be somewhat unpredictable, and I don't know anything about the client side in production, of course. sonja Am Montag, de

Re: compressing pdf response

2005-09-19 Thread Jan Pernica
Anyway the browser does not display PDF correctly if it is compressed. Regards Jan Sonja Löhr wrote: Thanks to you all! If the improvement is so small I will unplug the filter. Although the browsers do support compression (the filter is checking this), the outcome seems to be somewhat unpredi

Re: compressing pdf response

2005-09-20 Thread John Burgess
We have a reporting tool here that produces the reports as pdfs. It has always worked with internet explorer but not with firefox or mozilla until recently, with both of them giving the message "File does not start with %PDF". Recent updates to mozilla and firefox have meant that about 75% o