Originally posted by Axel Janssen:
Important when you embed larger images: Set jvm heap size up with -Xmx -Xms option! This one drove me nuts yesterday.
Axel
Another important things
1. Don't scale down the image sixe in xsl:fo, avoid resizing image size: orginal size:10x20, xsl:fo size 5x10, will create processing cost, better create a new original with 5x10 size.
2. Use PNG images than jpg or gif or bmp etc., requires little jar configuraition.