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From: "Jody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] How to merge two 3G size pdf fast


>
> Hello,
>
> I read this thread with great interest. We also have to process and merge
> large PDF files. While we haven't had files as big as described in this
> thread, we have had problems with memory consumption on files as small as
> 80MB. Stamping an 80MB file with the old PdfReader constructor took 
> upwards
> of 900MB of heap size. With the new constructor taking a byte array, it is
> down to 400MB.  This is still a lot of memory and will limit the size of 
> the
> files we'll be able to process.
>
> So, my question is, is iText looking at ways to decrease memory usage? Are

Yes, but as this are not frequent cases it's that high on the to-do list.

> you planning any new apis that stream the documents in and out of memory 
> as
> opposed to having the entire doc in memory multiple times over?
>

That's the same question and PDFs can't be streamed.

Paulo

> Thanks,
>
> Jody
>
>
>
>
> Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>>
>> You also need to be aware that Acrobat 6 and earlier have a 2G
>> limitation on PDF file size anyway - so that if you really are able
>> to merge the documents together, you can only view it with Acrobat 7
>> and later.  In addition, no 3rd party PDF viewer is able to work with
>> a >2G PDF.
>>
>> Leonard
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2006, at 3:31 AM, Davy Lee wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Paulo,
>>> even for two 2G pdf file, do u have a better sosution to merge them,
>>> sometimes I don't need to modify the pages, sometime I do.
>>>
>>> btw, the 2G limitation is for the original pdf file or for the
>>> finnal merged
>>> file?
>>> cheers.


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