optimized pdf

[Darrel Riekhof <da...@tririga.com>]

We are thinking about using FOP to produce large PDF reports that will be
served to web clients.  However, the PDF files that FOP produces are not
optimized.  So, the reader client will have to download the entire PDF file
before viewing the first page.  If the PDFs were optimized, then clients
could see pages before the whole PDF was on the client.  Detail about this
at:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techguides/acrobat/byteserve/byteservmain.html

and

http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/50959.htm

Is there a way to make FOP produce optimized PDF Files, or a way to produce
the files in FOP, then automatically run then through some other (Adobe)
product that will optimize them before serving to the clients?

Darrel

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Re: optimized pdf

[Keiron Liddle <ke...@aftexsw.com>]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:19:25 Darrel Riekhof wrote:
> We are thinking about using FOP to produce large PDF reports that will be
> served to web clients.  However, the PDF files that FOP produces are not
> optimized.  So, the reader client will have to download the entire PDF
> file
> before viewing the first page.  If the PDFs were optimized, then clients
> could see pages before the whole PDF was on the client.  Detail about
> this
> at:
> 
> http://www.adobe.com/support/techguides/acrobat/byteserve/byteservmain.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/50959.htm
> 
> Is there a way to make FOP produce optimized PDF Files, or a way to
> produce
> the files in FOP, then automatically run then through some other (Adobe)
> product that will optimize them before serving to the clients?


I mentioned this as a useful addition to our pdf generation (yesterday).

If FOP can generate a linearized pdf then the pdf viewer (in the browser)
will be able to show each page as it arrives.
It depends on exactly what you want though.

If linearized pdf is generated then you cannot (I think) also stream the
pdf output as the pages are generated.

- linearized
good for storing large documents to be viewed online

- streaming
good for generating pdf on demand using less memory


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