Re: PDF Limitations?

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now that I look at it closer, I use an array to keep track
of each page (object).  That is maxed at 32767 elements,
and that is what was causing the problem.  

When I looked at it previously the line I looked at I swore
was the XREF portion, but it wasn't.  It was this array
becoming too large.

Hmmm... now... to figure the best way to fix it since that
array is maxxed...

Brad

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:20:55 -0500
 "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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