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| dch_26 | hi. i'm using ghostscript to join multiple PDF files together, works well. i now need to ramp up the number of files to ~10,000. does anyone know if gs will attempt to do this in memory or will it just concatenate on disk? thanks | 10:55.12 |
| Robin_Watts | dch_26: What you're doing is not joining multiple PDF files together. | 10:56.56 |
| dch_26 | ok, i'm making one monster pdf - yes, but the question stands | 10:57.18 |
| Robin_Watts | What you're doing is to make a completely new PDF file that hopefully have the same appearance when printed as the original files did. | 10:57.29 |
| dch_26 | agreed - hope is also the word | 10:57.48 |
| Robin_Watts | gs splits the files down to rendered graphical objects and makes a new file from them - so you potentially lose stuff like outlines, metadata etc. | 10:58.06 |
| | The pdfwrite device does make use of temporary files, but a lot of stuff still happens in memory AIUI. | 10:58.48 |
| dch_26 | understand that and happy. it just needs to look the same when viewed. does it have to hold the whole thing in memory? the 10k docs are pretty similar - it may find things to "re-use" or compress to keep the size down | 10:59.15 |
| | ok - thx..i guess try it and see is the answer | 10:59.33 |
| Robin_Watts | dch_26: It's precisely because it wants to reuse stuff that it needs to hold some of it in memory. | 10:59.46 |
| | To spot reuse it needs to run through the stuff it's already seen. | 10:59.57 |
| dch_26 | ok - that makes me feel quite confident that it will be good , even if it is entirely memory based | 11:00.28 |
| | many thanks for the input :) | 11:01.08 |
| Robin_Watts | no problems. | 11:02.08 |
| vtorri | tor8: hey | 17:34.52 |
| | tor8: are you interested about a compilation error on OpenIndiana (solaris) ? | 17:35.36 |
| sven337 | pksm output device - what do the letters mean? | 19:05.03 |
| | Portable inK Separated Map maybe | 19:06.15 |
| damarusama | I get an error on a ps2pdf from ghostscript, and wondering if it could be a font path problem | 22:23.02 |
| | https://pastebin.com/8Fx9Lebt | 22:23.12 |
| | in short Last OS error: No such file or directory | 22:23.27 |
| | GPL Ghostscript 9.21: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 | 22:23.27 |
| | the eps file can be imported on another computer running linux so the file seems ok | 22:23.51 |
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