[reportlab-users] Is ReportLab suitable for this task?

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Thanks for the reassurance as to file size and performance.  That would be
amazing performance in my application.

And, did you print this 13,000 page PDF?  If so, did you do it with Acrobat
or send it directly to the printer or something else?  My limited
understanding of the structure of a PDF is that there is a dictionary at the
end of the file with information that is vital to the rendering process and
therefore the whole file would have to be read before any rendering could
happen.  Can printers do this on their own (Postcript 2.0 capable printers)?

Don

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Alet" <alet@librelogiciel.com>
To: <reportlab-users@reportlab.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Is ReportLab suitable for this task?


> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:28:51AM -0900, deyoung@gci.net wrote:
> >
> > 2)  We need two kinds of outputs, 1) a file for the printer, and 2)
> > individual PDFs for import into the COLD/imaging system.  For the
printer
> > file, we need a file with enough statements to use 5,000 pieces of paper
(so
> > the operators can just load a box of paper per file).  Could the printer
> > file be just one 5000 page PDF or does that become too large for
ReportLab
> > to handle in memory?  How would you handle this?
>
> FYI I've created a document of 13000 pages with a logo and full page
> of text in french and english, with colored text, etc... with no
> problem at all. It had to read and write datas to a PostgreSQL server
> for each page.
>
> Of course, instead of putting the logo and the constant text on each
> page, I've just created a PDF form and repeated the form on each page
> with the varying information added.
>
> Works like a charm on my PII 350 with 384 Mb RAM, it takes maybe
> two minutes (I don't remember exactly)
>
> Hoping this give you an idea of RL's performance.
>
> Jerome Alet
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