[reportlab-users] Numerous pdfs generation

[Fabian]

No test have been done yet, I was just requesting if any way to manage 
this size/speed concern already existed to avoid any bad surprise later. 
The document generation engine will be ready in about a month. I'll do 
some test then, and see if it will work fine with just a sufficient 
amount of RAM.
In case it doens't, the "xobjects" and 'linearized pdf' seems to be two 
interesting tracks.
Thank you

Fabian

PS : The pdf file must be unique for a marketing campaign, it's a 
constraint from the routing companies that manage the printing and 
sending of the mailings.


Andy Robinson wrote:

> 2009/1/9 Fabian <fbs at tinyerp.com>:

>   

>> Yes, it's the 6M pages a day.

>>     

>

> Have you actually done some experiments and looked at the resulting

> file sizes, and/or run out of memory?    What limits do you hit?

>

> I presume that these are stacks of highly similar documents - for

> example a big stack of invoices.  The trick here is to make very thorough

> use of 'form xobjects' for anything which is used frequently.  So, for

> example, your invoice template and letterhead might need to be drawn

> and stored just once in that mega-pdf-file.  Then you only need to render

> the words which differ on each page in the main story.    If you use these

> techniques, it's amazing how many pages you can spit out and how

> quickly.  And it's not worth an R&D effort if a couple of extra GB of RAM

> will do the trick.

>

> The second question I'd ask is if the client really needs each of

> these to be delivered as a single file.  If they have, say, a 200,000

> page stack of invoices, would they not be equally happy with a directory

> of files each containing 1000 pages, or by client IDs, or some

> other structure making it easy to find the PDF they want?

>

> When clients have asked me for huge docs in the past, they have always

> seen the wisdom of breaking it up a bit after some initial discussion.

>

> - Andy

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