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Tom Lane 8d20eaa62b Improve our workaround for 'TeX capacity exceeded' in building PDF files. In commit `a5ec86a7c7` I wrote a quick hack that reduced the number of TeX string pool entries created while converting our documentation to PDF form. That held the fort for awhile, but as of HEAD we're back up against the same limitation. It turns out that the original coding of \FlowObjectSetup actually results in three string pool entries being generated for every "flow object" (that is, potential cross-reference target) in the documentation, and my previous hack only got rid of one of them. With a little more care, we can reduce the string count to one per flow object plus one per actually-cross-referenced flow object (about 115000 + 5000 as of current HEAD); that should work until the documentation volume roughly doubles from where it is today. As a not-incidental side benefit, this change also causes pdfjadetex to stop emitting unreferenced hyperlink anchors (bookmarks) into the PDF file. It had been making one willy-nilly for every flow object; now it's just one per actually-cross-referenced object. This results in close to a 2X savings in PDF file size. We will still want to run the output through "jpdftweak" to get it to be compressed; but we no longer need removal of unreferenced bookmarks, so we might be able to find a quicker tool for that step. Although the failure only affects HEAD and US-format output at the moment, 9.5 cannot be more than a few pages short of failing likewise, so it will inevitably fail after a few rounds of minor-version release notes. I don't have a lot of faith that we'll never hit the limit in the older branches; and anyway it would be nice to get rid of jpdftweak across the board. Therefore, back-patch to all supported branches.	10 years ago
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sgml	Improve our workaround for 'TeX capacity exceeded' in building PDF files.	10 years ago
Makefile	Remove maintainer-check target, fold into normal build	12 years ago

Tom Lane 8d20eaa62b Improve our workaround for 'TeX capacity exceeded' in building PDF files.

In commit a5ec86a7c7 I wrote a quick hack
that reduced the number of TeX string pool entries created while converting
our documentation to PDF form.  That held the fort for awhile, but as of
HEAD we're back up against the same limitation.  It turns out that the
original coding of \FlowObjectSetup actually results in *three* string pool
entries being generated for every "flow object" (that is, potential
cross-reference target) in the documentation, and my previous hack only got
rid of one of them.  With a little more care, we can reduce the string
count to one per flow object plus one per actually-cross-referenced flow
object (about 115000 + 5000 as of current HEAD); that should work until
the documentation volume roughly doubles from where it is today.

As a not-incidental side benefit, this change also causes pdfjadetex to
stop emitting unreferenced hyperlink anchors (bookmarks) into the PDF file.
It had been making one willy-nilly for every flow object; now it's just one
per actually-cross-referenced object.  This results in close to a 2X
savings in PDF file size.  We will still want to run the output through
"jpdftweak" to get it to be compressed; but we no longer need removal of
unreferenced bookmarks, so we might be able to find a quicker tool for
that step.

Although the failure only affects HEAD and US-format output at the moment,
9.5 cannot be more than a few pages short of failing likewise, so it
will inevitably fail after a few rounds of minor-version release notes.
I don't have a lot of faith that we'll never hit the limit in the older
branches; and anyway it would be nice to get rid of jpdftweak across the
board.  Therefore, back-patch to all supported branches.

10 years ago

sgml Improve our workaround for 'TeX capacity exceeded' in building PDF files. 10 years ago

Makefile Remove maintainer-check target, fold into normal build 12 years ago