[publican-list] ask help for using publican to generate pdf from docbook xml files

[Jeff Fearn]

On 04/18/2012 02:11 PM, gao1738 at sina.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a newer in publican, and trying to using it to generate a big pdf (more than 2000 pages) file from a list of docbook xml files.
> Now I meet a problem:
>
> ......
> warning: Line 1 of a paragraph overflows the available area by 2000mpt. (fo:block, location: 33553/315)
> 2012-4-18 11:23:56 org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager$LineBreakingAlgorithm updateData2
> warning: Line 1 of a paragraph overflows the available area by 25000mpt. (fo:block, location: 26433/1280)
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
>      at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager.postProcessLineBreaks(LineLayoutManager.java:1052)
>      at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager.createLineBreaks(LineLayoutManager.java:925)
> ......
>
> I google this problem and I get a solution:
> using the jvm option: -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit
>
> But I don't know how to add this jvm option to publican.
> Does anyone could give me some suggestions?
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
> Best Regards,
> Dennis GAO

If you are on Linux you can set this in your ~/.foprc similar too 
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/2.7/html/Users_Guide/chap-Users_Guide-Frequently_Asked_Questions.html#id772803

Cheers, Jeff.