Re: PDF Limitations? -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Is there a size limit to PDF's?  I've been giving trial runs to AFPTOOL by
Brad Stone and CVTSPLFPDF from MMAIL at http://www-922.ibm.com/.  They both
seem to do a good job but they both had problems when I tried to convert a
spool file that was 8660 pages.  Was that too much?  I've only done a
minimal amount of testing so it could be my fault.  Granted, most reports
that we would be interested in converting wouldn't be nearly that big but I
thought that I'd try this since our accounting department runs some large
year-end reports that they want to keep until the end of time.

There is not any practical limit to the size of a pdf file. A 32 bit OS may have trouble with a pdf file that is much greater than 2GB is size, but that is the fault of only 32 bits, not the pdf itself.

We also print reports that are many thousands of pages. So far we haven't had any problems at all with file size. We use scs2pdf (part of the tn5250 package). 8660 pages isn't that many.

btw - if you use scs2pdf and have some trouble with it let me know - I wrote it ;)

James Rich

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