Re: PDF Limitations?

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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).

Yes, you can make them bigger with more xrefs, etc, but
honestly, converting it to PDF?  If you'll ever look at it
again, then maybe RTF or HTML is a better format where
there are no "limitations."

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.

AFPTOOL on the other had converts AFPDS spooled files to
PDF, but a raster format, making a much larger file than if
it were plain text.  The limit in AFPTOOL will be from the
size of a user space.  I hope to update it one day, but
normally for my customers they are converting only a few
pages (like invoices) at max, so it's not an issue.

Converting more than that would take quite a while with the
processes involved in it... 

Also, to clear things up, AFPTOOL is for AFPDS spooled
files, SPLTOOL is for SCS spooled files.  AFPTOOL may work
on some SCS spooled files, but it chokes on some (why, I
don't know and IBM hasn't been able to help much either).

The SPLTOOL Suite, as mentioned earilier, is these two
tools and MAILTOOL bundled together.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:13:19 -0500
 Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
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