[PDFBOX-4260] Reduce RAM requirement of COSOutputStream

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.11
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.12, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Writing
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Jesse Long
• Created: 05/Jul/18 08:26
• Updated: 05/Oct/18 04:53
• Resolved: 11/Jul/18 19:26

Description

COSOutputStream uses a byte array to buffer data prior to filtering. This is bad. As commented in COSOutputStream, it should be updated to use a scratch file buffer instead.

This patch does that.