On 08 Jun 2011, at 21:14, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
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>> My current questions are:
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>> -Why are the page objects flushed straight away? (Memory constraints?)
>
> Very likely to save memory indeed. More with the intention of just flushing
> "as soon as possible", to support full streaming processing if the document
> structure allows it. Theoretically, in a document consisting of single-page
> fo:page-sequences, without any cross-references, you should see relatively
> low memory usage even if the document is 10000+ pages, precisely because the
> pages are all written to the output immediately, long before the root page
> tree, which only retains their object references.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just felt this needed clarification: *PDF* object references (which, in Java
are merely Strings, not references to the PDFPage objects).
