1. Roland Smith
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Sunday, 29 October 2017 17:14 PM UTC

I have looking for ways to speed up PDF generation. I wanted to let everyone know my findings.

My test was done in PB 2017 Build 1666. The DataWindow is a basic grid with enough rows to fill two and a half pages. I ran the test ten times for each method and threw out the high and low values.

Amyuni - 0.198 seconds - 17,944 bytes

GhostScript - 0.575 seconds - 18,464 bytes

NativePDF - 0.611 seconds - 20,782 bytes

The NativePDF option is slightly slower and creates files that are slightly larger. The Amyuni solution takes one-third the time as Ghostscript.

The Appeon folks might want to look at ways to make their solution faster once any the quality issues have been solved.

 

Govinda Lopez @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 30 October 2017 17:10 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

Hi Roland,

 

Thank you for your interest and trust in our Appeon products!

We really appreciate and thank you for taking some of your valuable time to provide us with important feedback.

Your suggestion about PDF Generation has been escalated through the proper channels.

We recommend you visit our Roadmap and our Product Availability Matrix to get the latest news about the new features and releases of our products.

We encourage you, as well, to continue exploring our PowerBuilder 2017 version and updates and share with us your feedback.

We pursue to make PowerBuilder a live and powerful tool that responds to the needs of our customers and with your support we will surely accomplish it.

Should you have any further query or feedback, please reach us anytime.

 

Regards,

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Bjarne Anker Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 12 January 2018 08:30 AM UTC
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  3. # 2

Hi.

 

I have the same issues here, and hopefully Appeon will fix this i the R2 release.

I have tested with a huge datawindow "just because". :)

 

200 pages:

GhostScript: 7 secs

CutePDF: 10 secs

Appeon native: 20 secs

 

I real life, this large sized datawindow is never seen, so this is just for testing.

But it illustrates the problem.

 

Regards,

Bjarne

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