Thank you for the helpful answers and sorry for my late reply. > Are you adding that overlay to every single page of that pdf? Whta is the > purpose of that overlay? Maybe a rubber stamp is a better approach?
I was not aware of rubber stamps, to be honest. The requirement is to place identical remarks (like “document no longer valid”) on all pages, and it shall not (easily) be possible for users to circumvent those when printing the document. Currently, the necessary overlays are generated in a separate step from FO with Apache FOP, so I have them as PDF files. I will have to figure out if this is possible with rubber stamps and how (whether?) I could create the necessary input objects from the same source. > With regard to 3.0.0 you might have a look at the kind of input source. Have > a look […] … and … > 3.0.0 creates such compressed object streams by default, so that the result > size should be similar to the input size Thank you for those suggestions, I will look into this. -mp.
