Printing And Really Big PDF's

Hey Listers

I'm trying to create a pdf that could potentially contain up to 150+ jpg
images of about 300Kb in size.  I've been using fpdf, but it seems to die
when it tries to handle that many images.

http://www.fpdf.org

After digging into the fpdf code, I've found that it creates a buffer
containing the entire pdf, then presents the pdf inline to the browser, as
a local file on the Web server, or returns the binary pdf data to a php
script.  This buffer creation seems to be where the script dies - probably
because it take a ton of memory to do this since all 150+ images are in
memory at once.

The environment is IIS on Windows and PHP 5.

The ultimate goal here is to be able to print these 150+ in one print job.
 Seems easy enough, right?  8-)  I've looked into printing directly from
the Web server too, but that doesn't seem to save any memory.

Can anybody on the list throw a clue at me and/or give me an idea of how
to print a job that can potentially contain 150+ pdf's?  I know this whole
thing seems pretty tricky, but this is what the customer wants...

Thanks a ton





Mark Courtney

http://www.MarkCourtney.com

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