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.
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