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Old 08-13-2009, 07:51 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
No luck, couldn't include the text more than 8 times. With the 9th it spits:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [number of destination names (dest_names_size)=131072].

And that number seems to be hardcoded in the pdftex source code.
Yeah... I hit the same issue.

It seems a little ridiculous... incredibly ridiculous actually. With swap counted I have just short of 6 GB of memory. Seeing memory limits for LaTeX handled in the MBs kind of pisses me off...

Knuth was seemingly short-sighted in a couple of ways with LaTeX... internationalization is definitely one way, and it seems memory issues are another.

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