RTF vs PDF Memory usage

[ia...@external.electrabel.com]

Hello

I have a question concerning the memory usage when creating a PDF document and an RTF document from practically the same .fo file.
For creating the PDF document, fop uses about 1MB/page which I consider normal and it scales pretty well.
When creating RTF documents however, for a 101 page document, 600mb is needed, while 100 suffices for PDF. 
It's true that the PDF document generated is "only" 2mb while the RTF document is 32mb. This give me the impression that maybe it's expected behavior of FOP to use a lot more resources for RTF File creation.
Each page is encased in its own page-sequence. Each page does have _a lot_ of information on it, but for PDF this doesn't form a problem.
There's also no references between the pages.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,


Ian Corne


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