Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using Fop to create PDF file

[Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com>]

Frederic Demians wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have two user guides in DocBook XML format: one containing 50 pages, the
> other about 400 pages. I use Norman XSL to produce HTML and Windows help
> file doc. Everything works fine. Now, I want to produce PDF version of this
> manuals. For the small one, it works. For the big one, I get an OutOfMemory
> error from FOP. I try to tweak java memory usage without success. Is
> someone doing such a job on large file using FOP? Is there another way to
> transform a FO file to PDF working.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Frédéric Demians
> f.demians@tamil.fr
Hi 

I've been following the fop-dev list. Here is an excerpt.

> Subject: Re: Possible problem with -buf
> 
>  you need  the latest cvs, meaning above 0.18.1 . use -buf buffer_file parm
> alongwith other parms. 400 pages should be ok, but bigger files will need
> the fix that will come in a few days.
> 
> seshadri
> FOP Support
> www.mindfiresolutions.com/fopservices.html

They added the option to spill the output to a file. Hopefully this will
help.

Eric
milagrosoft.com