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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" <[email protected]> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
