Thanks Sascha,

That was part of it, the other part was my template PDF wasn't optimized, I
didn't even look at the size of the bugger.  It was 1.8mb(sheesh).  I cut it
down to 20k I've got quite a few form fields.  It works like a champ now. 
akin to not checking if the computer is plugged in maybe this will be a good
reminder to somebody at least. I feel foolish.

thanks 
Josh

Sascha Fuchs wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> It a java setting (your java max heap is too low for handling big pdf's)
> 
>>From command line you can adjust with command like java -Xmx200m  ...
(200MB heap).
> 
> Better: There is a java config setting for default max heap (I can't
> remember from ff -> search for java reference)
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha Fuchs
> 
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> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: [iText-questions] Heap out of memory / PdfSmartCopy()
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> Per Bruno's 
> http://www.nabble.com/PdfStamper-vs-PdfCopy-tf3685313.html#a10301433 
> advice  
> 
> I used PdfSmartCopy following his example and after about 60 pages it
> throws
> a Java Heap out of memory. I'm trying to do this for potentiall 20
> thousand,
> so just increasing my memory I don't think is going to be an option. Is
> there an alternative method that's not goign to kill my server's memory?
> 
> spefically this is what I'm doing
> 
> PdfReader reader;
> ByteArrayOutputStream baos;
> PdfStamper stamper;
> AcroFields form;
> Document document = new Document();
> try {
>   PdfSmartCopy copy = new PdfSmartCopy(document, new
> FileOutputStream("EIDForms.pdf"));
>   document.open();
>   for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
>     // set fields
>     reader = new PdfReader("EIDFormTemplate.pdf");
>     baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>     stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, baos);
>     form = stamper.getAcroFields();
>     form.setExtraMargin(0, 1);
>     for (int j = 0; j < keys.length; j++) {
>       form.setField(keys[j], values[i][j]);
>     }
>     stamper.setFormFlattening(true);
>     stamper.close();
>     // add page
>     reader = new PdfReader(baos.toByteArray());
>     copy.addPage(copy.getImportedPage(reader, 1));
>   }
> } catch (DocumentException de) {
>   System.err.println(de.getMessage());
> } catch (IOException ioe) {
>   System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
> }
> document.close();
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