Use PdfWriter.freeReader() after adding all the pages for that reader.
You'll get better results with PdfCopy; see
com.lowagie.tools.concat_pdf.java in the last version.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J�r�me Keirse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 15:08
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      [iText-questions] Concat pdf
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I was using IText java API with sucess for several months. I have to
> concatenate a lot of pdf files and I'm getting
> an error I can't resolve : 
>  
> I have got to scan several folders which contains pdf files and I have to
> concatenate all the pdf files for each folder. After some concat-pdf were
> sucessfull
> created I'm randomly get the following exception (but it seems to be after
> around 1000 concatenations) : 
>  
> java.io.FileNotFoundException : folder100/afile.pdf (too many open files)
>     at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)
>     at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init> (RandomAccessFile.java : 200)
>     at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init> (RandomAccessFile.java : 94)
>     at com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAcessFileOrArray.<init> (Unknown Source)
>     at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PRTokeniser.<init> (Unknown Source)
>     at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init> (Unknown Source)
>     at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init> (Unknown Source)
>     at com.test.PDF.concatPDF (MyFile.java : 200)
>  
> I tried to release my IText object by several ways (obj.close(), obj =
> null, System.gc()), but without any results.
>  
> Is there a limit with the concat ? (I don't think ...) but are the files
> opened by the PdfReader object closed correctly ?
>  
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks - J�r�me


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