[reportlab-users] Creating Large PDF Files

Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:01:52 -0000

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Creating Large PDF Files
  -----Original Message-----
  From: reportlab-users-admin@reportlab.com
[mailto:reportlab-users-admin@reportlab.com]On Behalf Of Engel, Gregory
  Sent: 05 March 2003 17:13
  To: reportlab-users@reportlab.com
  Subject: [reportlab-users] Creating Large PDF Files

  By large, I mean 500+ MB.  (Managers ask for the funniest things.)  Is
there a way to save an incomplete PDF file to disk, and thus clear the
memory, while processing large amounts of raw data?  I've hit a memory
barrier where ReportLab quits processing the data and Python throws and
"exceptions.MemoryError".  It seems that ReportLab attempts to keep the
incomplete PDF in memory until the pdfgen.save method is called.

  Thank you,

  Gregory Engel
  Senior Software Engineer

  秤秤秤秤秤秤秤秤秤秤
  My other computer is spongy gray matter.

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