On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:13:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Size doesn't matter, like it never does, it depends on the complexity (or 
> technique) all parts play together. Let's assume, that you render 450MBytes 
> of PNG graphics to a single PDF, each representing a full page, nothing more, 
> no header, no footer, no additional text and not even a single cross link. 
> This document «may» be written as a single stream, one image after the other.
> 
> Now change this to a document referencing the images in a TOC at the top of 
> the document. This TOC must contain an entry for every image, so FOP must 
> «have a look» at all images, that it knows where they'll be, on wich page. 
> Therefore it has to save them somewhere, to avoid repeatedly loading them 
> from disk.
> 
> The first example doesn't need a large cache, just one image per page. The 
> second example needs a cache for ALL images. Now if you take a more complex 
> document into consideration, it's not possible to say, that this won't render 
> (never, not even after a billion years) or this is going to produce a 
> document (at least until our sun is not far from becoming a red giant ball, 
> 3.5 billion years, a squillion tera clicks until then). Take the document, 
> create a XSL-FO, call FOP and reply on the list. We're all interested in the 
> results, to be seriously honest...
> 
 
Thanks. I will try to conert the document to FO and let everyone know.
It may be a week before I can accompilsh this task. Right I'm trying
to get everything not work in TeX so my girlfriend has a thesis she
can pass in.

(Did I tell you how much I hate TeX?)

Paul

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