[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #3687: Unable to export large / high resolution / detailed scale maps

[Quantum GIS]

#3687: Unable to export large / high resolution / detailed scale maps
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   Reporter:  bderstine                                  |              Owner:  nobody                          
       Type:  bug                                        |             Status:  new                             
   Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0                   
  Component:  Printing                                   |            Version:  Trunk                           
   Keywords:                                             |   Platform_version:  Windows 7; Kubuntu 10.10 64 bits
   Platform:  All                                        |           Must_fix:  No                              
Status_info:  1                                          |  
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Comment(by gislab):

 Replying to [comment:2 mayeulk]:
 > To create image 28086x19866 requires about 1673 MB of memory. Proceed?
 > I clicked yes (my PC has 4GB of RAM). Then there was the message:
 > Creation of image with 28086x19866 pixels failed. Export aborted.

 It failed with the same message on WinXP, r15740.
 It might be running into some system limitations, the file that is being
 created would have 600 millions pixels.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3687#comment:4>
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