Pdfmake: Creating pdf consume high memory
I am generating 3 tables in my pdf as below:
Table 1 - 2 columns 6 rows
Table 2 - 10 columns 200,000 rows
Table 3 - 2 columns 6 rows
File size - 80MB
Pages - 16,000 pages
Time to generate PDF - 40 minutes
--max-old-space-size = 40000 (MB)
I need to assign 40Gb of memory to generate this PDF and it tooks a long time to generate which is unacceptable. Any way to enhance my current situation?
soohan92
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馃槰 why would you do that in the first place? Who is going through a pdf of 200k+ rows? Isn't it better to export that to a csv/excel/etc. ?
Wabbala
on 1 Dec 2017
That's the requirement for the project. We did have excel but pdf is also mandatory.
soohan92
on 2 Dec 2017
Problem is in pdfkit - https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit/issues/728
liborm85
on 2 Dec 2017
Thread closed but any solution ?
soohan92
on 3 Dec 2017
DUPLICATE
liborm85
on 3 Dec 2017
@soohan92, it may be a requirement, but what is the use of this requirement you may also wonder! Think in usability instead of just following requirements. Dare to question it! You can't do anything with a pdf which contains more than 20k rows. No analysis can be conducted, storage of it is sh*t. So first get the use case. Solve the cause of the problem then the problem itself 馃槈
Wabbala
on 4 Dec 2017
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@soohan92, it may be a requirement, but what is the use of this requirement you may also wonder! Think in usability instead of just following requirements. Dare to question it! You can't do anything with a pdf which contains more than 20k rows. No analysis can be conducted, storage of it is sh*t. So first get the use case. Solve the cause of the problem then the problem itself 馃槈