> I haven't been following this thread bewcause it does not seem to be an > iText issue. > I have been following this thread (this is an interesting question, as document storage can be pricey), and your question about down-sampling was, answered (below), and your question about whether the difference is because of itext or not, a subset of the OPs original question of "why", in my opinion, has not been answered. The OP: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-how-come-itext-pdf-are-a-lot-better-than-if-i-resave-them-in-adobe--p18312382.html Save as is Lossless: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-how-come-itext-pdf-are-a-lot-better-than-if-i-resave-them-in-adobe--p18303471.html Adobe does offer some extras that have impressive compression capabilities however (jbig2): http://www.adobe.com/products/acrcapture/agentpack/#Anchor-Compression-3800 But so does itext :) http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg28676.html Impressed? Uh-huh. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-come-itext-pdf-are-a-lot-better-than-if-i-resave-them-in-adobe--tp18301100p21121406.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.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php