If it is possible to do what you want to do in cfreport you might want to look into that. I remember a thread a year or two ago where somebody switched from raw CF to cfreport and was blown away by the speed difference.
-Nate > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:47 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: cfdocument pdf generation > > > I have a tough question. > > I am trying to use cfdocument to generate a huge PDF file > with 5000+ images > > after failing (even with CF64bits and 8GB of RAM), I was > analyzing the PDF > generated by iText (the lib used by coldfusion), and it seams > every image > included in the PDF is using the FlateDecode encoding, instead of the > DCTDecode for jpeg images > > with the FlateDecode, images get 10x bigger, as FlateDecode is a zlib > compression > > also, iText tries to use the memory buffer for the cache of > the document > > The only way to this document generation to be feasable is if > I can change > iText to use DCTDecode on the images, and use a disk based > buffer instead of > a memory based buffer > > the real question: can I update iText with a more recent > version ? if so, > does this fix this issue? If I can't update the internal iText > implementation, is there a easy way to convert html to pdf > using an external > iText implementation called by CreateObject ? > > answers suggesting me to use something else than coldfusion > won't be very > helpful, since I already know that, but I want to use > coldfusion to generate > those PDFs Comparing with other PHP and ASP.NET > <http://asp.net/> based > solutions, coldfusion pdf generation is bloated and slow and > I am trying to > fix that > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
