Dude,
Your endless ranting about LaTeX does not change the fact that it is
much faster, and less markup-heavy than FOP. Anyone with better things to
do with their time than obsess about layout would be brain-dead to avoid
latex.
Obviously, FOP has other advantages, but for laying out a thesis, it
simply cannot compete.
Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
21/03/2006 12:31 PM
Please respond to fop-users
To: [email protected]
cc:
Subject: Re: maximum document size
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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