[Qgis-user] Trouble trying to produce large graphic jpg from stand alone QGIS 2.8.1-Composer on Windows 7-32 bit

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Hi Tom,

I remember there used to be a problem with large prints in Win32, see 
e.g. [1]

Bernhard

[1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11145

Am 18.03.2015 22:22, schrieb Tom Lennon:
> The graphic is 656 MB (16200 x 13500 @ 300 dots per inch) and would
> measure 1372 x 1143 mm. It is a wall map. Composer warns it may cause
> memory overflow and when I proceed it says to either change paper size
> or resolution and no file is generated. I have checked available memory
> and it is 1.82 GB before attempting the export. Windows 7-32 is limited
> to 3.5 GB physical RAM so I tried increasing virtual RAM to 12 GB. That
> had no effect. Also tried to output as PDF, which gave no warnings and
> produced an empty file. Is there some way to instruct QGIS to use the
> virtual RAM? Or is there a way to have the output file made in bands
> like Post Script does?
> Thanks
>
> --
> tolennon at gmail.com <mailto:tolennon at gmail.com>
>
>


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