Re: [xep-support] Splitting of large document

Mike, Brian,

Thanks for your hints.

The document is in the 1000+ pages class with plenty of large SVG drawings
(>500 Kbytes).

I will check with my customer if I can drop the references between chapters.
If so, then I can use the split technology and build the TOC and Indexes
from the separate sections in XEP intermediate format.
Otherwise they have to buy a bigger server...

Does anyone know if there is an option to prevent XEP's in memory
processing?

Cheers, Jost

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Trotman" <mike.trotman@datalucid.com>
To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: [xep-support] Splitting of large document

> I have successfully processed 100mB+ documents of 1000+ pages - mainly
> consisting of heavily formatted tables with 15 x 20 cells per page,
> multiple pages per table, lots of data per cell, footnotes etc.
> This included bookmarks and a simple Table Of Contents with internal
> links to individual tables.
>
> By placing each table / document chunk within a separate
> <fo:page-sequence> I was able to keep the memory requirements very low
> (not much more than the default).
> I'm now also using XSLT pre-processing where I produce each
> <fo:page-sequence> in a separate XSL-FO file and generate a master
> processing document which sets up regions and page masters
> and contains a list of the separate <fo:page-sequence> files to include.
> I then process this master list with a simple XSLT to produce the final
> FO for output to PDF.
>
> I haven't used indexes (the TOC references etc. are constructed by the
> XSLT) - so don't know what sort of overhead this produces.
>
>
> Mike
>
> Brian J. Butler wrote:
>
> > I have also been working on a very large document (88MB FO file, 2200
> > pages of technical text and drawings). I can offer the following three
> > suggestions:
> >
> > 1. Make sure your Java -Xmx size is as large as possible. With
> > Windows this will be approximately -Xmx1600Mb.
> > 2. Use the XEP flag to turn off PDF compression (in xep.xml or command
> > line). This will result in a very large PDF, but you can compress it
> > after rendering by opening it in Adobe Acrobat and then saving.
> > 3. Switch to a 64-bit Solaris platform (Opteron processors). We
> > benchmarked one of these machines and found that we can -Xmx almost
> > unlimited memory. The speed is also very fast.
> >
> > BJB
> >
> > Jost Klopfstein wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I ran into memory problems while rendering a large book with TOC,
> >> indexes and references between sections.
> >> I first thought I could just render section by section into XEP
> >> intermediate format and then assemble the pieces with some custom
> >> code into a large PDF using the PDF output generator.
> >> However I will loose the TOC, indexes and the references between
> >> sections.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jost
> >>
>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Jost Klopfstein
> >> *Axos Technologies Inc.*
> >> OnDemand & Transactional Document Solutions, powered by XML
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> >>
> >> *604 628-2248 Phone*
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> >> jost (at) axostech.com
> >> http://www.axostech.com
> >
> >
> >--
> >Brian J. Butler
> >BJB Software, Inc.
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> >Holliston, MA 01746
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
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