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- 2014-01-16T21:00:01-07:00
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Efficiently generating thumbnails of a pdf in php
- Replies: 4
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Re: Efficiently generating thumbnails of a pdf in php
Yes, that's another option. We currently do it that way, however like I said the problem we are running into is that at high load it's thrashing the server. Our metrics indicate the system calls to imagemagick are by far the most expensive part of our app. However, the person who wrote it did it in ...
- 2014-01-16T17:38:39-07:00
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Efficiently generating thumbnails of a pdf in php
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12254
Efficiently generating thumbnails of a pdf in php
Hi all, We have some legacy code that generates a pdf preview by converting the pdf to 250px png thumbnails of each page (so 10 thumbnails for a 10 page pdf). This has been thrashing our server royally as load has grown, because the original developer did the thumbnails by writing the source pdf to ...
- 2013-04-26T11:22:45-07:00
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Converting large number of tifs to pdf efficiently?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5935
Re: Converting large number of tifs to pdf efficiently?
Yeah I gave that a shot with a limit of 128 and that ended up segfaulting and filling up the disk.
- 2013-04-26T09:14:40-07:00
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Converting large number of tifs to pdf efficiently?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5935
Converting large number of tifs to pdf efficiently?
We have a project that requires us to take an uploaded zip file and convert the 100+ tifs and pdfs inside to a single pdf document. I've written a simple shell script to do this and it works fine, except that it completely thrashes the machine and has locked up one of our production servers on multi...