Re: Making a Large Dictionary

2008-05-19 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Ted, Thanks for your warm feedback :-) This is great to know that FOP is successfully used in big real-life projects. You might want to add an entry to the SuccessStories wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/SuccessStories Or simply add a link to your own webspace where you would

Making a Large Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Ted Young
Greetings to the list, I am using FOP version 0 .94 under Java 1.6 update 6. I am using FOP to create a PDF dictionary from a source XML file. There are only 12,000 entries in this dictionary. The tricky bit is that the words being defined are in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Each word

Re: Making a Large Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On May 18, 2008, at 06:10, Ted Young wrote: Hi I am using FOP version 0 .94 under Java 1.6 update 6. I am using FOP to create a PDF dictionary from a source XML file. There are only 12,000 entries in this dictionary. The tricky bit is that the words being defined are in Ancient

Re: Making a Large Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Peter Coppens
Ted, No idea whether this is practical for your case nor whether it would actually make a difference, but you could try a two step approach First render the 12000 entries to pdf (a 'page' for each entry), then use a second fo stylesheet that refers to the pdf pages as external graphics.

Re: Making a Large Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread J.Pietschmann
Andreas Delmelle wrote: I'm not 100% certain, but I think using i-f-o currently means that inserting the same SVG 1000 times would lead to 1000 separate SVG DOMs as foreign nodes in the FO tree (?) I think so. The advantage is that these should be reclaimed once the page sequence ends, while

RE: Making a Large Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Ted Young
Thank you to all who have replied. The answer by Andreas Delmelle was right on! I switched over to using external-graphic and not only can I render within my 1 GB memory limit, my PDF files seem to display faster. Today I was thinking that if this worked, it would be neat to be able to use the