Re: Printing And Really Big PDF's

First thought I had..

"Just because its what they want doesn't mean they can have it"

That being said you could go into the fpdf code and have it buffer to 
disk somehow. Then once its done close buffer, Then stream that file to 
the client.

I would also check, does it die at the same point? Maybe it is a php 
time limit issue?

Richard Thomas - CEO
Cyberlot Technologies Group Inc.
507.398.4124 - Voice



Mark Courtney wrote:

> 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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