twpPDFPrinter or TWPRichText Max Length?

briandhuff

WPTools 4, Delphi 4

We are using a twpRichText to create thousands of letters and print them out. After using the product for many years, we have run into a problem.

We generate about 16,000 letters and try to print them. Seems we are running into a maximum size issue either with the RichText or the PDFPrinter component. Only 2/3 of the letters print. We can verify that it is not a data or code issue and if we print to a plain text file, we get everything. However, if we print to PDF, we seem to max out. The PDF file created is 2.36 GIGs in size and that's only 2/3 the letters.

It's a ton of letters, and we are pushing things pretty far.

Just wondering if there are any contraints that we might be running into?

support

Hi,

It seems so you get hit by the 2GB file size limit (32 bit integer)

You will need to split files.

Julian Ziersch

briandhuff

That's gonna be fun lol.

Is this a restriction on TWPRichText, or PDF's, or hard disk?

support

Hi,

A size limit for PDF files I see at
9999999999 because of the XREF tables they are using.
That would be 9 gigabyte if I count correctly.

There is a size limit of files on FAT32 partitions at 2GB

wPDF2 internally uses 32bit pointers for the position references,
so it also has a limit at 2GB.

Julian Ziersch

briandhuff

Ok, thank you very much for your great follow-ups and replies. Looks like we are going to have to start tracking how much data we put into the component and breaking up the printing.

Again, thanks much!