Re: PDF Limitations?

Is the PDF you're looking at compressed?  SPLTOOL uses no
compression.

I've run tests before and around there it seems to fill up.
 It's not just the data, it's all the PDF data as well.  So
for each page you can add more.

Brad

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:12:07 -0600 (MDT)
 James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Brad Stone wrote:
> 
> >The reason for the limit is because the XREF portion of
> the
> >PDF that tells the reader where everything is is a max
> of
> >10 digits (or 9,999,999,999 bytes).
> 
> That limit is there, but I just checked an 8646 page pdf
> I created with scs2pdf and the last XREF entry is
> 0055322516 (meaning the last object (page) occurs at byte
> 55322516).  The total size for this pdf is 55841718
> bytes.
> 
> >Now, SPLTOOL has this limit which is around 3000 pages
> >(depending on the amount of data).  It creates PDFs
> >(retaining bold, underline, spacing, pages, etc) out of
> SCS
> >spooled files.
> 
> Surely more than 3000 pages fit in 10 GB?
> 
> James Rich
> 
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Bradley V. Stone
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