Why does AddWatermark make file so big?

I can't thank you enough for all the help you are giving me, but I just hit a brick wall.  I am not really a "coder" by any stretch of the imagination.  I am more of a cut 'n paste sort of guy that tweaks the code a bit to make it work.  So I read your article (light hearted and easy to read) but very difficult for me to understand exactly what to do.  So I will tell you what I did and you can tell me what I did wrong.

1) downloaded the CFCDyamicProxy from the website link you provided.  I created a mapping in CFAdministrator to the folder.  I ran a couple of the "Sample" files and got no errors, so I assume it installed properly.

2) Downloaded iText JAVA-PDF library 5.02 and put it in the same folder so I could use the mapping.

3) I then copied and pasted your example (and changed the reference of the iText to the 5.02 version instead of your 2.17).

4) Ran the CFM file and got this error:

Could not find the ColdFusion Component or Interface PdfPageEventHandler.

so obviously I am missing something, but don't know what.

btw, should I be e-mailing you on the side or should we keep this on the Forum?  also, if you can't be bothered with this, I totally understand just let me know.

Here is the CFM file I created:

<cffunction name="onEndPage" access="public" returntype="void" output="true"
    hint="Called when a page is finished, just before being written to the document.">
<cfargument name="writer" type="any" required="true" hint="Writer for the target pdf. Instance of com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter" />
<cfargument name="document" type="any" required="true" hint="Document for target pdf. Instance of com.lowagie.text.Document" />
<cfset var Local = {} />

<cfscript>
if (len(variables.instance.footerText))
{
     Local.cb = arguments.writer.getDirectContent();
     Local.cb.saveState();

     Local.cb.beginText();
     Local.cb.setColorFill( variables.instance.textColor );
     Local.cb.setFontAndSize( variables.instance.font, javacast("float", variables.instance.fontSize) );
     Local.cb.setTextMatrix( arguments.document.left(), arguments.document.bottom() - 10);
     Local.text = variables.instance.footerText &" page ["& arguments.writer.getPageNumber() &"]";
     Local.cb.showText( Local.text );
     Local.cb.endText();

     Local.cb.restoreState();
}
</cfscript>

</cffunction>

<cfscript>
//add the javaloader dynamic proxy library (and the iText jar) to the javaloader
libpaths = [];
arrayAppend(libpaths, expandPath("/javaLoader/support/cfcdynamicproxy/lib/cfcdynamicproxy.jar"));
arrayAppend(libpaths, expandPath("/javaLoader/itext/iText-5.0.2.jar") );

//we HAVE to load the ColdFusion class path to use the dynamic proxy, as it uses ColdFusion's classes
loader = createObject("component", "javaLoader.JavaLoader").init(loadPaths=libpaths, loadColdFusionClassPath=true);
</cfscript>

<cfscript>
//intialize the page event handler component
eventHandler = createObject("component", "PdfPageEventHandler").init( font=textFont, fontSize=10, textColor=textColor);
//add a custom footer
eventHandler.setFooterText( "www.clueless.corp * 85 anywhere blvd * lost city" );

//we can pass in an array of strings which name all the interfaces we want out dynamic proxy to implement
interfaces = ["com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPageEvent"];

//get a reference to the dynamic proxy class
CFCDynamicProxy = loader.create("com.compoundtheory.coldfusion.cfc.CFCDynamicProxy");

// create a proxy that we will pass to the iText writer
eventHandlerProxy = CFCDynamicProxy.createInstance(eventHandler, interfaces);
</cfscript>
<CFABORT>

<cfscript>
fullPathToOutputFile =  "d:\20833P2_After.pdf";

  document = loader.create("com.lowagie.text.Document").init();
  outStream = createObject("java", "java.io.FileOutputStream").init(fullPathToOutputFile);
  writer = loader.create("com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter").getInstance(document, outStream);

  // ** register the PROXY as the page event handler **
  writer.setPageEvent( eventHandlerProxy );
     
  document.open();
  Paragraph = loader.create("com.lowagie.text.Paragraph");
  document.add( Paragraph.init("Paragraph Text....") );
  document.newPage(); 
  document.add( Paragraph.init("Paragraph Text....") );
  document.newPage();
  document.close();
  outStream.close();

  WriteOutput("Done!");
</cfscript>