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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">A non-linearized PDF can be written entirely as a stream – keeping nothing in memory. You would simply need to find a PDF library that offers that functionality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">poppler <poppler-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Ionut Cosmin Mihai <ionut.cosmin.mihai@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, October 13, 2023 at 1:36 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>poppler@lists.freedesktop.org <poppler@lists.freedesktop.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[poppler] Writing PDF with limited memory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello, I'm trying to choose between poppler and libharu and I can't figure out if there is a way to use poppler to write a pdf without keeping the whole pdf document in memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For example if writing a set of images into a pdf, the document can become very large and not holding it into memory would be very useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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