clone 461076 -1 retitle -1 importing DjVu files fails, hogs memory thanks also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.01.16.2027 +0100]: > A better option would have been to have saved the 170 pages as either > a TIFF, which would be reimported as TIFF - better compression, or a > DjVu file, which has anyway better compression.
I tried both now. When trying to import the DjVu file, gscan2pdf just says "Converting to TIFF", but the progress bar never fills. In the mean time, gscan2pdf inflicts some serious work on my hard disks: it spawns ddjvu to convert my 12Mb .djvu file into a 230Mb TIFF, and then apparently loads that multiple times, causing my entire 4Gb of RAM and all of swap to fillto about 99%: 21321 madduck 20 5 2729m 1.8g 1.8g D 91.1 65.1 0:07.04 gscan2pdf Now the system becomes unusable, the mouse freezes for a couple of minutes, until I finally manage to click 'cancel', and then surrenders all of the RAM again. It says false alarm on 21321 when I click cancel. If I import the TIFF directly, then the same thing happens, except for the .djvu stage. I tried to let the process run for longer but had to cancel it again because OOM started killing applications on my system. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "menschen, welche rasch feuer fangen, werden schnell kalt und sind daher im ganzen unzuverlässig." - friedrich nietzsche
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