[PDFBOX-3868] Optimize usage of COSStream construction

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.7, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Documentation, PDModel
• Labels: optimization
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 13/Jul/17 17:09
• Updated: 21/Jul/17 04:40
• Resolved: 15/Jul/17 10:27

Description

The COSStream() constructor is evil... discovered in PDFBOX-3852: it creates a new memory scratch file... which is an array with 100000 entries. I'll improve the javadoc and make some changes to avoid the usage when possible.

Issue Links

• relates to: PDFBOX-3852 Overlay a pdf file which is 750 pages ends up in OutOfMemoryError