Hi,I've seen what monster size a 500-article PDF can have (in excess of a 1000 pages and 140MB of data), so maybe an other kind of solution would be advisable: - either possibly give e.g. sysops the right to create collections that are over 500 pages (for legitimate books with more articles), that can be downloaded by anyone: having saved collections would mean that all these large collections can be safely cached - other nice idea would be to try to calculate the size (in pages and megabytes) of the book if it has more than say a 100 wiki pages, and before going into the CPU intensive layouting/rendering phase display a warning that
"Your book is going to be approximately 1234 pages long, with pictures that is about 435 MB on a 2MB/s internet having a download time of 40 minutes and the rendering time with current server configurations will take 35 minutes. Do you want to go ahead?" - or something less scary, but to the same effect. Last time I tried a 140 MB PDF I was frankly praying for my computer not to crash due to not enough memory... Best regards, Bence Damokos On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Johannes Beigel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20.11.2008, at 22:35, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > - Is any functionality for multi-volume books planned > > Yes, but there's not timeframe yet. > > > - Also, a little usability note here: on the website you can select > your previous collections and delete them, but once you select a collection > that is too big, you just get an error (for the book being too long) > without > the possibility to clear the collection: an option to clear all uploaded > books would come in handy. > > Thanks for the report! That's a use-case that went by unnoticed :) We'll > look after that. > > > - Is this 500 wiki article limit a hard limit (there cannot possibly be > books/pdf's that contain more than 500 articles) or just one set to avoid > abuse of the system? > > The latter: It's a limit to avoid abuse. PDF rendering for huge collections > can take a very long time. But we can talk with Brion Vibber if we > should/can drop that limit: http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/373 > > > - if you add a category that has more than 500 articles, there is no > warning issued that some articles were skipped because they didn't fit. > > Right, that can be considered a bug: > http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/374 > > -- Johannes Beigel > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mwlib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
