Re: PDF Performance

["Mike Pavlak" <Mike.Pavlak@xxxxxxxx>]

A lot fewer characters...

Regards,

Mike

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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Peter Connell
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 5:33 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] PDF Performance

I would suggest that converting spool files is not a significant process
task compared to transforming HTML so I would expect it to be faster.

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2010 4:28 a.m.
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] PDF Performance

Regarding performance, I was able to drop the time from 2 minutes, to 20
seconds, to transform a 150 page HTML document to PDF.  I can live with
that.  Just discovering various Java optimization techniques.

That's still quite a bit less throughput than Jim Horn's example of
converting a 640 page spool file in 10 seconds, using CoolSpool.  But an
HTML to PDF transformation offers a way to do GUI formatting, which has
some added value.

I was also pleased that PDF files end up being only 1/4 - 1/5 the size
of original HTML files, which may alleviate bandwidth concerns.

Nathan.



----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 3:40:02 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] PDF Performance

Nathan,
I've been in your position before, which was to decide which of the
plethora of suggestions to adopt for generating PDF from an existing web
page.
My decision to use PD4ML was based on the fact that it appeared to
perform very well (certainly better than BIRT), there was very little
code to write in order to integrate into the existing app, there was
almost no learning curve for other developers and the installation was
exceedingly trivial.
Basically, I did not want my project to be hampered by any complications
(including security) arising from the requirement for a PDF.

Peter