Are you using the last iText version?
There was a problem with Table that caused an infinite loop.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
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> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:11
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> Subject: [iText-questions] very strange error with itext, please help
>
> Hello, I am generating pdf using itext from a db source through a servlet
> on weblogic6.1 and displays the pdf back in a webpage. The input for
> generating the pdf are just a bunch of user selected filters on a webpage.
>
>
> I encountered a very strange bug: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError <<no stack
> trace available>>. I know this error occurs when generating large pdfs but
> that is not the case.
> The servlet calls a bunch of stored procs in the db and add the resultsets
> from them to a itext Table. Now for example, with input1 it generates a
> 150+ page of pdf perfectly, then I changed the filter to input2 and i get
> an out of memory error. However input two only suppose to generate like 20
> pages and I verified both the stored proc and java sql codes. The program
> runs until doc.add(datatable) then i get the out of memory error. My itext
> table contains 16 columns with 3 of them containing large amount of text
> (Text column datatype used in DB).
>
> After some testing I noticed:
>
> This is the header of my table:
> /*********** If I comment out the addCell(title) codes, everything
> works****
> ************ If I dont, i get out of memory error in certain inputs
> *******/
> datatable.addCell(new Phrase("title1",
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10, Font.BOLD)));
> datatable.addCell(new Phrase("title2",
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10, Font.BOLD)));
> datatable.addCell(new Phrase("title3",
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10, Font.BOLD)));
> datatable.addCell(new Phrase("title4"
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10, Font.BOLD)));
>
> ........etc
> datatable.addCell(new Phrase("title16",
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10, Font.BOLD)));
> /*************************************************************************
> *********/
>
> Cell spacer = new Cell(new Phrase(" ",
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA_BOLD, 5, Font.BOLD)));
> spacer.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
> spacer.setColspan(NumCol);
>
> /*********** If I comment out the addCell(spacer) code, everything
> works****
> ************ If I dont, i get out of memory error in certain inputs
> *******/
> datatable.addCell(spacer);
>
> datatable.endHeaders();
>
> so basically if i comment out either the header name or the spacer,
> everything works fine. If i leave them both in, i get out of memory
> errors. Why is this happening? The total length of the pdf report is only
> 20ish pages how is an extra row of blank space causing it to go out of
> memory? especially since it can generate pdf with 150+ pages with no
> problem whatsoever. Please help, I cant seem to find any solution to this.
>
> Also in general what causes out of memory errors other than just a really
> large pdf.
>
> Thank you,
>
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