From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 6 4:40:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ED637B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 04:40:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE9943E9C for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 04:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b214.otenet.gr [212.205.244.222]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6Ce8n0015742 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:40:09 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6Ce3P6001365 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:40:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB6Bko4E022631; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:46:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:46:50 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Warren Block Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdftex problems? Message-ID: <20021206114650.GA16236@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-12-05 21:29, Warren Block wrote: > I've been trying some in-house documentation using DocBook and then the > FreeBSD DTD. The pdftex version seems far superior to the ps2pdf > version of the same document, at least if the end result is PDF. The > table of contents has links to the pages, for example. > > But there's an ominous note about limitations of pdftex in the Handbook > Makefile. So I'd like to ask for more detail about the limits: what are > they? Am I likely to hit them with a much smaller manual if I stick > with pdftex instead of the ps2pdf method? IIRC the problems that pdftex has with the Handbook are caused by the design of TeX. TeX uses large, static, preallocated arrays as "pools" of memory for the data it needs while running. The size of these tables is probably configurable at build time, but I haven't used teTeX or something similar in a while and I can't remember why I had this impression when the problems with pdftex started. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message