iText doesn't support files bigger than 2G. This limit is there for no
particular reason and as long as each pdf object is below 2G it's not that
difficult to add support for big files.
About the speed it depends on what you are doing and the type of pdf
documents you are processing, number of pages, etc. Nevertheless it will
always be slower than a C based application.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aden [SMTP:saden1@(protected)]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:13
> To: itext-questions@(protected)
> Subject: [iText-questions] iText and Large PDF Files (2+ gig)
>
> We are currently using Glance PDF-tools and for the
> first time we encountered a PDF file that is will over
> 2 gig in size and it seems that their library can't
> open files over 2 gig. I contacted them about the
> problem and it took them a while to answer. Now all of
> a sudden the "problem" which they were not aware of
> until I brought it up became a "feature" that will be
> implemented the first quarter of 2004 unless we paid
> them $$$ in which case it would be implemented in
> two-three weeks. Well I smells something really fishy
> these guys. It almost sounds like extortion
> considering we already paid them for a license. The
> thing is though, we'll be migrating from our current
> production system to a new one soon. Our PDF file
> layout will change so we'll have to implement new code
> and I wouldn't mind the least bit moving to iText.
> Couple of big question that still lingers are if there
> is an issue with iText speed and whether it can handle
> large files (2+ gig) without hogging memory.
>
> If anyone can answer my questions I'd appreciate it.
>
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