Re: Re: memory requirements

"Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:08:25 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
Message-ID <1227560906.7163.3.camel@mungo>
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:44 +0000, paolo_asioli wrote:
> Very strange... I've found old posts from Fredo saying that memory
> usage could be reduced by setting the file name in the object creation
> and using finishobjects after each page to relese the objects used in
> that page.
> 
> The objects get written to the file but no memory apparently gets
> released.

Some memory gets released, that used by temporary objects, but the PDF
steadily grows.

If you could divide your document into sections and have one PDF for
each section.  You can then use something like Scribus
http://www.scribus.net/ to patch them together.


-- 
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  Shawn

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the dossier is not the person,
the model is not reality,
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