Just a correction:

> So, my question is, is iText looking at ways to decrease memory usage? Are

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

Paulo

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From: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] How to merge two 3G size pdf fast


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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