Can I stream to disk?
Graham TerMarsch <graham-A8NDs6OoA5Z19/[email protected]> Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:17:51 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2 |
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| Organization | Howling Frog |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Haven't (yet) found a way to do this, so I thought I'd ping the list... One of the apps I work with uses PDF::API2 to generate PDF files, and we've found one use case where I could be generating a PDF file with several hundred pages of images/graphs/charts. To try to help cope with memory issues I wanted to find out if there was any way that I could "stream" the PDF to disk, instead of just generating the whole thing in memory and then spitting it out at the very end. Ideally, I'd like it to work by opening an existing PDF file (the preamble) and then as I generate/add new pages to that PDF file I could ship them out to disk and then reclaim the memory that they used. Suggestions? -- Graham TerMarsch