Hello. Thank you for the suggestions. I will look into ReportLab and the older versions of PDF. I am trying to avoid the whole PostScript / GhostScript route since my primary goal is to generate a PDF as fast as possible.
Usually what's slow is the layout computation, not the PDF text serialization of it, which is pretty efficient. Though I found that ReportLab was adding lots of metadata to all my links, resulting in an overall large filesize, and because it targets a pre-1.6 version the links were all uncompressed (though the page contents were compressed, which has been a feature of PDF for a long time).
