Bruno wrote:
> I hope you find the problem. I know from experience > that these kind of problems are hard to solve... I have solved this problem. For those who are interested (I will be cross posting on the iTextSharp list as well because this is a .NET problem): It appears to be an issue with the .NET Garbage Collection and COM interop. By adding System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(comObj); GC.Collect(); GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); during the Path painting loop I was able to complete the whole document without exception. The MS documentation warns that this forced GC collection has an impact and it does; the processing time has gone from 30 minutes to about 3.5 hours but the document is produced. I had other problems once the document was produced. Reader(7) gave an "Operation or data too complex" error so I optimised the document. Reader then opened most of the layers and threw a "There is a problem reading this document (18)" error. A Google search produced a quick result "Download Reader 8". Which I did. The document can now be read. Cheers AlanK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/