Re: PDF Limitations?

Hold the phone!  :)

I found a small bug in SPLTOOL that was causing the 3000
page limitation!  It wasn't with the XREF at all, but with
the pages listing portion of the spooled file.

I will be issuing a service pack ASAP!

Brad

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:53:48 -0500
 "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My 10,000 page report just finished after about 5 hours
> of
> running.  No problems.
> 
> The report was basically the same line of text repeated
> over and over again.  The file is about 74meg.
> 
> I know a lot of people are running older versions of my
> software still, so that may be part of it.
> 
> If someone has the current version and wants to run some
> tests, I'd love to see the job log and a dump if the
> program crashes, as well as the temp file that is created
> (to see how many pages it got to.)
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:13:19 -0600 (MDT)
>  James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Mike Wills wrote:
> > 
> > >The resulting file of a 3000 or so page PDF comes out
> to
> > be about 5-10MB
> > >range I believe.
> > 
> > In that case the should be no problem with the XREF
> > running out of space. The PDF Reference (version 1.5)
> > states that the format of the xref is as follows:
> > 
> > nnnnnnnnnn ggggg n eol
> > 
> > where nnnnnnnnnn is a 10-digit byte offset, ggggg is a
> > 5-digit generation number, n is a literal keyword
> > identifying this as an in-use entry, and eol is a
> > 2-character end-of-line sequence.
> > 
> > Therefore, if the PDF file is only 10MB large, the byte
> > offset cannot possibly be larger than 10 digits.  So
> the
> > 3,000 page limit is not due to limitations of the PDF
> > xref.
> > 
> > btw - the offset is the number of bytes from the
> > beginning of the file. The largest the offset could
> > possibly be is the size of the file.  That means a PDF
> is
> > limited to 10GB in size (before the xref and without
> > doing any other tricks).
> > 
> > James Rich
> > 
> > It's not the software that's free; it's you.
> >     - billyskank on Groklaw
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> Bradley V. Stone
> BVS.Tools
> www.bvstools.com
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