RE: PDF Limitations?

["Burns, Bryan" <burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you're right - the limit is just over 3,000 pages (and somewhere
about 20mb).  About two years ago I started SPLTOOLING our month end FIFO
reports, which run about 3400 pages, and at one point they started getting
corrupted.  Brad said it was due to a limitation that Adobe has on how big a
PDF and it depends on the amount of data on each page, etc. Since then, I
have converted the FIFO reports to PDFs in two parts to work around the size
limitation.
         

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wills [mailto:koldark@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:13 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: PDF Limitations?


I have found that for SPLTOOL, there is a limit somewhere before the PDF 
gets corrupted. I am not exactly sure the limit, but I have hit it several 
times with PDFs over about 3000+ pages. I can't say exactly where the limit 
as I have never tried to find that out. Brad, what is the limit? Can you 
tell us? Is there a reason for it?

On 4/14/05, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Since PDF's seem to be the topic of the day...
> 
> 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.
> 
> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN 46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

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