[Clipart] Problem uploading a certain file

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Mon Feb 1 23:38:55 PST 2010


sorry man. I apologize this is broken. Bassel can give you an update
on the status of this :)

Jon

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> On 01/31/2010 12:54 AM, J. Alves wrote:
>>
>> I then decided to do the inverse path: start from the one benzene ring
>> file and slowly build up the graphene drawing, submitting each one on
>> turn (and always saving as "plain SVG" as Nicu suggested). The
>> submission would take longer and longer each time -- I started with
>> one ring, then two, then four, 5, two "rows" of rings, four rows, 6
>> rows. When I added the 7th, it failed as previously described (blank
>> page after the submission). I would think that the site only gets the
>> file and stores, but apparently it might not be the case since it's
>> taking so much longer to process the file as it gets a little larger.
>> What is OCAL doing to the file, if anything, and why? I don't think
>> it's a particularly good idea, unless someone enlightens me to the
>> reason behind it.
>>
>> But a suspicion arose in my mind: could it be a size problem? (e.g.
>> after you get an image larger than X by Y, the submission fails)
>
> I am not the developers behind this, just another user, but if I
> remember correctly, there is a program performing some validation after
> the upload (to ensure is valid SVG or something like that).
> For large and/or complex files, it takes a *long* time and is timing
> out. I believe at some point the timeout value was increased, since we
> had the problem very frequently.
>
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