Size to PDF

[LucasBurg]

What is the maximum size to PDF ?

[marcbachmann]

What size do you mean? Page count or Paper size? I actually have no Idea. I assume you'll get memory problems before you exceed the size limit of phantomjs. I wouldn't create pages that are larger than 40pages.

It really depends on how much text & images you have on it and whether you build it on mac or linux. On mac there's a bug that renders text using vectors instead of text elements. So the performance on linux is much better.

[LucasBurg]

Thanks for the feedback, It is the size of the file. really had a memory problem, most managed to solve and I'm generating more than 300 pages with text and small images. thanks for developing this project!

[senica]

Is there anyway to stream the process? I have a very large pdf I'm trying to generate. the html file is 111MB. I set the timeout to 10 minutes :) but it just always dies. Any way to circumvent this?

pdf.create(html, {
                format: 'Letter'
                orientation: 'portrait'
                border:
                  top: '.5in'
                  right: '.5in'
                  bottom: '.5in'
                  left: '.5in'
                type: 'pdf'
                timeout: 600000 # 10 minutes
                filename: file_pdf
              }).toFile

edit:
and I have tried with toStream but I get the error mentioned below

[senica]

I always end up getting this:

[Error: html-pdf: Force timeout
sails-4 (out): ]

even though I'm nowhere near 10 minutes

[senica]

I did a little poking around this morning and was able to get my pdf to generate by changing the follow in node_modules/html-pdf/lib/scripts/pdf_a4_portrait.js

setTimeout(function() {
    return exit('Force timeout');
}, 600000); // Changed from 120000 or two minutes

No memory issues. Server skipped happily along.

[marcbachmann]

@senica I've removed the timeout.

Is there anyway to stream the process? I have a very large pdf I'm trying to generate. the html file is 111MB. I set the timeout to 10 minutes :) but it just always dies. Any way to circumvent this?

Phantom can write the pdf only to stdout or file. html-pdf uses the latter because there were some bugs on windows.