In my experience, it is memory that is the key factor. Running with 512MB allocated to the JVM, I can produce 53 pages of PDF, but no more. I would have thought that SAX-based processing would allow you to process as much as you want, but obviously there is something with PDF documents that eliminates this advantage.
Regards, Lajos galatea.com caleb racey wrote: > What factors limit the size of xml file you can transform to pdf? > > I'm testing out one of my pipelines that generates simple pdf from an > xml file. When using a small (2kb) xml file it all works fine but as I > begin to paste more (valid) xml into the file it stops working (at about > 23k). The pdf plugin in Internet explorer 6.0 says "the file doesn't > start with %pdf" and cocoon throws the error > > FATAL_E (2002-04-16) > 09:47.15:055[core.xslt-processor](/cocoon/demo/short.pdf) > HttpProcessor[8080][4]/TraxErrorHandler: Error in TraxTransform > er: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.io.IOException: > Connection reset by peer > javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.io.IOException: > Connection reset by peer > at > org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemLiteralResult.execute(ElemLiteralResult.j > ava:725) > at > org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.executeChildTemplates(Trans > formerImpl.java:2243) > at > org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemLiteralResult.execute(ElemLiteralResult.j > ava: > 710) > > > see attached file for full error log. > > My server environment = Redhat linux 7.2, cocoon 2.0.2, jdk 1.3.1_02. > > The xml and the xsl transformations are alright as they work on smaller > files. > > Anyone know what is going on? Is this the IE acrobat problem that I have > seen mentioned briefly on the lists. > > Cheers Cal > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>