From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T07:28:36+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer memory error

On 7/27/06, john sikorski <john.sikorski@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use PDF::Writer to generate a PDF version of a phone list
> but I'm having out of memory problems.  The document is formatted for 2
> column output.  I originally added all names (about 500)  to a single
> four column SimpleTable object which ran without error, albeit slow.  I
> then tried creating seperate tables for each letter of the alphabet,
> resulting in an out of memory error.  Google searches found a few
> others experiencing the same problem.  One suggestion was to set
> split_rows=true which did prevent the error but the pdf generated was
> poor, rows spilling over to the next page, column headings appearing
> twice, and a few other odd problems.  Does anyone know how to make this
> work with PDF::Writer?  Any suggestions for other Ruby PDF API's?

I don't have any suggestions right now, but you may want to check the
Rails list for a post about a version of SimpleTable that doesn't use
Transaction::Simple. You'll need to ensure the pagination yourself,
but I will be reviewing SimpleTable's use of Transaction::Simple in
the future to fix this.

I'll tag this to look at it again next month when I get back to
PDF::Writer work.

-austin
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