TCPDF Performance Tuning
April 26th, 2016
TCPDF is a third-party library which does its best to parse/understand and re-write your PDF with your desired changes (watermarks/encryption/etc), but it cannot possibly work on all PDFs and on all servers 100% of the time. Below are some suggestions on how to make your setup play nice with your server (part of a disk on a computer in a room somewhere in the world you probably have limited control over). Stay realistic, think carefully through the process, plan, and do your testing. Hosting Plans If you have large PDFs, complex watermarks (HTML, images, fonts, encryption) and/or heavy customer traffic, you may also want to upgrade your hosting so you can use more CPU if […]
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