Re: [NTG-pdftex] 2GB limit and Windows

David Kastrup schrieb:

Akira Kakuto writes:

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Hi David,

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do I understand correctly from the discussions and Svn logs that PDFTeX is now ready to create large PDF files under GNU/Linux, but the same can't be said of Windows? Please test the binary of W32TeX (1.50.0-alpha), and teach me the problem.

Uh, I asked whether I understand correctly. I did not say that I _did_ understand correctly or tested anything.

Where would I be able to download this binary?

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I myself don't have tested the large file.

I'll probably not be able to test this before Friday on a Windows test system (tomorrow is a local holiday) and before Monday on the production system. So if anybody has a good suggestion for a simple enough test setup that would enable Akira to test drive the executable without putting me in the feedback loop, this would make things move somewhat faster.

The easiest and fastest way that I can think of is attaching a huge file (memory dump, backup file, ..). Maybe you can use creatfil.exe from the 'Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit'. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en Taken from the description: 'Create File (CreatFil) is a command-line tool that creates a blank file of a specified size, filled with space characters. This is useful for testing the behavior of tools, applications, and setup programs under conditions of low available memory on a hard disk.' Simply create a dummy file of desired size and attach it to a small pdf document. Of course this will only work if pdftex doesn't compress the attached file. I have no experience with attachments, so I just don't know if this works. I can send you a 3GB test file per mail (packed size 19KB) :D Peter