Re: PDF Limitations?

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My 10,000 page report just finished after about 5 hours of
running.  No problems.

The report was basically the same line of text repeated
over and over again.  The file is about 74meg.

I know a lot of people are running older versions of my
software still, so that may be part of it.

If someone has the current version and wants to run some
tests, I'd love to see the job log and a dump if the
program crashes, as well as the temp file that is created
(to see how many pages it got to.)

Brad

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:13:19 -0600 (MDT)
 James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Mike Wills wrote:
> 
> >The resulting file of a 3000 or so page PDF comes out to
> be about 5-10MB
> >range I believe.
> 
> In that case the should be no problem with the XREF
> running out of space. The PDF Reference (version 1.5)
> states that the format of the xref is as follows:
> 
> nnnnnnnnnn ggggg n eol
> 
> where nnnnnnnnnn is a 10-digit byte offset, ggggg is a
> 5-digit generation number, n is a literal keyword
> identifying this as an in-use entry, and eol is a
> 2-character end-of-line sequence.
> 
> Therefore, if the PDF file is only 10MB large, the byte
> offset cannot possibly be larger than 10 digits.  So the
> 3,000 page limit is not due to limitations of the PDF
> xref.
> 
> btw - the offset is the number of bytes from the
> beginning of the file. The largest the offset could
> possibly be is the size of the file.  That means a PDF is
> limited to 10GB in size (before the xref and without
> doing any other tricks).
> 
> James Rich
> 
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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
www.bvstools.com