RE: Do you see a better way of doing this with PDF::API2?

Hello,
I can tell you from experience the server is a big deal.  We had a PDF that
took 40 to 50 sec to generate that now takes only 5 seconds to APPEAR inside
acrobat on a newer better server. Loading even static PDFs often takes a few
seconds to APPEAR in acrobat.  So anyway, you should still pursue code
improvements but don't underestimate the effect of a better server if you
can afford whatever cost is associated with that improvement.

Regards,
-Tim 
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Subject: [perl-text-pdf-modules] Do you see a better way of doing this with
PDF::API2?

First off, let me preface this by saying Thank You to all of you who have
helped me understand how PDF::API2 works (and a BIG thanks to the author!),
without it I would not even be 10% of the way through this project.

Now here is the next question I hope you can help me with. FYI all of this
is working right now.

1. I am currently creating a multi-page pdf using text that is input by the
user.

2. I then save this pdf into a file.

3. I then re-open this pdf and extract out the individual pages into
seperate files (reason for this is they may want to view just that page and
I need the individual pages for step 5).

4. I then create a new pdf.

5. I then open and insert the individual pages into the new file, along with
any photo pages that were made (these are done in a seperate section and a
single page pdf is made with the photo) using a page map, as an example, if
I have a 7 page pdf (filename-1.pdf through filename-7.pdf (created in step
3)) and my page map says to insert photopage-1.pdf before page 3 and
photopage-2.pdf before page
6 I will end up with a 9 page pdf containing:
filename-1.pdf
filename-2.pdf
photopage-1.pdf
filename-3.pdf
filename-4.pdf
filename-5.pdf
photopage-2.pdf
filename-6.pdf
filename-7.pdf

6. I then save this new finished pdf

The above steps are important, because if they make a new photo page I
create the page and then jump to step 4 to make a new finished pdf.

Now the question is, how can I make this faster program wise (it isnt THAT
slow, on a 10 page pdf it takes 45 seconds or so)? The one thing I can think
of that would work is if I could combine steps 2 & 3, so that while I am
making the multipage pdf I can save the current page as a new pdf without
closing the multipage pdf. Is it possible to save a page on the fly with a
new name and not close the current pdf? 
Or, can I copy the current page contents into a new pdf structure and save
that?

Now I will definatly increase the speed when I add more memory to the server
I am testing on, and the server we will deploy on will be the fastest one
possible with the most memory possible, but if I can speed it up on my
1.5ghz system with 256mb (I know) then it will THAT much faster on a 4+ghz
with 2gb+ of ram.

Thanks in advance

Bill H