[xep-support] Splitting of large document

[Brian J. Butler]

I have also been working on a very large document (88MB FO file, 2200 
pages of technical text and drawings). I can offer the following three 
suggestions:

1. Make sure your Java -Xmx size is as large as possible.  With Windows 
this will be approximately -Xmx1600Mb.
2. Use the XEP flag to turn off PDF compression (in xep.xml or command 
line).  This will result in a very large PDF, but you can compress it 
after rendering by opening it in Adobe Acrobat and then saving.
3. Switch to a 64-bit Solaris platform (Opteron processors).  We 
benchmarked one of these machines and found that we can -Xmx almost 
unlimited memory.  The speed is also very fast.

BJB

Jost Klopfstein wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I ran into memory problems while rendering a large book with TOC, 
> indexes and references between sections.
> I first thought I could just render section by section into XEP 
> intermediate format and then assemble the pieces with some custom code 
> into a large PDF using the PDF output generator.
> However I will loose the TOC, indexes and the references between sections.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Thanks,
> Jost
>  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jost Klopfstein
> Axos Technologies Inc.
> OnDemand & Transactional Document Solutions, powered by XML
> IT Consulting
>
> 604 628-2248  Phone
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> jost (at) axostech.com
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Brian J. Butler
BJB Software, Inc.
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