Maybe you need full compression.

Paulo

----- Original Message -----
From: "new2pdf" <askme131@(protected)>
To: <itext-questions@(protected)>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:42 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] size of the pdf created with PdfCopy is
largerthan original pdf


>
> Hi!
>
> I use PdfCopy create a new pdf document by extracting few pages from
> another
> pdf document. But the newly created pdf has a larger file size than the
> original even though it has lesser number pages. Could any one help me
> understand why is it like this? This is the code that I am using to create
> the pdf.
>
>   public void extractPdfPages(String inFile, String outFile, int[]
> pagesToExclude) throws Exception
>   {
>     // create a reader for the input document
>     PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inFile);
>     int pages = reader.getNumberOfPages();
>     // create a new document
>     Document document = new
> Document(reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(1));
>     PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, new
> FileOutputStream(outFile));
>     document.open();
>     // copy selected pages
>     PdfImportedPage page;
>     boolean isIncludeThisPage;
>     for (int i = 0; i < pages; )
>     {
>        ++i;
>        isIncludeThisPage = true;
>
>        if (pagesToExclude != null && pagesToExclude.length > 0)
>        {
>           for (int j = 0; j < pagesToExclude.length; j++)
>           {
>             if (i == pagesToExclude[j])
>             {
>                isIncludeThisPage = false;
>                break;
>             }
>           }
>        }
>
>        if (isIncludeThisPage)
>        {
>           page = copy.getImportedPage(reader, i);
>           copy.addPage(page);
>        }
>     }
>     // close new document
>     document.close();
>   }


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