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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-948

Don't use temporty files by default for all PDF sizes

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.4.0
    • 1.5.0
    • None
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    Description

      PDFBOX uses by default temporary files as work space (regardless of the PDF size).

      org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAcessFile is not buffered, so each read/write acess is a system call. There are functions like readlong, which call read 4 times to read 4 bytes. Additionally, it adds the usual problems with tempory files.

      For normal sized PDFs files, the in-memory implementation RandomAccessBuffer should not increase the memory usage too much, while providing faster IO as all access operations are only memory copies.

      Therefore, please consider switching the default to in-memory scratch buffers. Users with very large files can still pass a temporary directory.

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        1. default-inmemory-workfile.patch
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          Martin Koegler

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-946 RandomAccessBuffer shoud be created empty

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              lehmi Andreas Lehmkühler
              e9925248 Martin Koegler
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