Re: How to avoid using too much memory to create relatively large PDF file

Are you using DOM to store your XML documents??  DOM needs a lot of
resources in order to build and store the document tree.  SAX, on the
other hand, is much less resource intensive.  Try looking at SAX as a
possible solution....

-TIM

>
> Hi,
>
> I am using most recent FOP, Xalan and Xerces to create PDF from the
> relatively large amount of data from database.
>
> The program works like this: I first get data from database, produce XML and
> use Xalan to process xml to create FO, then I use FOP to create PDF file.  I
> am able to create PDF files without any problem, however, I need to manually
> allocate a lot of memory to process the FO (like 80M).  The vast amount of
> memory is needed when FO is processed to create PDF file.  Does any one have
> any idea how can I avoid occupying too much memory.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestion.
>
> Sean
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Received on Wednesday, 14 November 2001 09:39:45 UTC