We are also finding it really slow. Aspose is taking something like 20 minutes to save our docx file to pdf, where as if I export the same docx to pdf from Word it takes 2 minutes.
Are there perhaps some options that we can set that will speed up the pdf generation (perhaps at the cost of accuracy)? We’re trying to use aspose to generate pdf previews of documents so we can’t have users sitting waiting 20 minutes for a preview.
Hi Simon,
Thanks for your inquiry. It is quite difficult to answer such questions because CPU performance and memory usage all depend on complexity and size of the documents you are loading/generating.
In terms of memory, Aspose.Words does not have any limitations. If you’re loading huge Word documents into Aspose.Words’ DOM, more memory would be required. This is because during processing, the document needs to be held wholly in memory.
While rendering a document to fixed page formats (
e.g. PDF, Jpeg, Xps), Aspose.Words needs to build two model in the memory – one for document and the other for rendered document.
The process of building layout model is not linear; it may take a minute to render one page and may take a few seconds to render 100 pages. Also, Aspose.Words has to create APS (Aspose Page Specification) model in memory and this may again eat some more time for some documents. Rest assured, we’re always working on improving performance; but, rendering will be always running slower than simple saving to flow formats (e.g doc/docx).
Could you please attach your input Word document here for testing? We will investigate the issue on our side and provide you more information.