Let's think about this rationally, tell me if I'm wrong: I'm going to guess that a standard PDF of 3-4 pages has AT LEAST 500K
500K/page * 10000 pages = 5,000,000K = 5GIGABYTES I don't know if a generated PDF is wholly loaded into memory or dynamically loaded, but 5Gb is HUGE. You need to just try to create ANY 5GB PDF to see if it's feasible to even ask the question if CF can handle it. My educated guess is that it can't. Matthew Small -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: producing large PDF documents Matthew Small wrote: > I have some experience in this area, so I need to ask the following > questions: > > 1) Are your customers all receiving the same mailing? No. > 3) If not, what are the differences in the mailings? The content of each mailing is different for each recipient. Some of it will be similar, but basically it's a pledge reminder letter where we send donors a nice letter reminding them of all the pledges they've made, what their balances are, when their next payment is due, etc... it will probably also be a self-mailer.. ie, after it's printed (two sides) and collated, it will be folded and the address and permit info will appear appropriately. > 4) Have you actually tried to product a 20,000 page mailing without using > CF? Is your hardware powerful enough to handle it? This may be a futile > effort to begin with. No. My question was not why it doesn't work, nor was it "Will it work"? It was simply, "Has anyone used CFDOCUMENT or CFREPORT to generate extremely large PDF files?" That being said, maybe I should've left everything else off, because what I'm planning to try isn't really relevant. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:217158 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
