| Big pdf files? [message #119390] |
Sat, 28 January 2006 19:12 |
Eclipse User |
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I can create HTML files with BIRT 2.0 that are quite big - about 250 pages
-- with no problem. When I try to view that file as pdf, however, my PC
chugs for about 10 minutes at 99% CPU and then fails with a vague
"internal error" message. I can see that Eclipse is using a Gig of RAM
before it fails.
I realize that my report may just be too big. A 20-page report worked OK
as pdf. I'm contemplating some painful alternatives, such as building the
pdf report directly myself from Java using iText, without any help from
BIRT. But conceivably I'll run into the same sort of problem using iText
directly.
Can anyone offer any insights into the size issue? I'm not yet very
familiar with iText. Is pdf generation with iText inherently
memory-heavy? Does the whole report have to sit in memory in iText before
anything is written out? Is there much chance that BIRT will evolve to
handle bigger pdf's? And is this limitation more likely to be caused by
iText itself or by some other component of BIRT?
I really like BIRT. I'm not looking forward to doing this the hard way,
without BIRT.
I'm fishing for some guidance or ideas before I abandon BIRT (at least for
the big reports) and set out on my own to solve this.
Thanks!
--Mark
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