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Re: PDF Limitations?

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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