[pdftex] pdftex capacity problems

[Andreas Matthias]

Thomas Schrader wrote:

> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=263001]
> 
> due to very very large longtables, I suppose (well, it works
> fine with short ones).
> 
> So, in 'texmf.cnf' I set
> 
> main_memory.pdflatex = 1500000
> 
> Now it complains
> 
> ---! Must increase the trie size (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

Have you recreated the format files?

>From texmf.cnf:

  % main_memory is relevant only to initex, extra_mem_* only to non-ini.
  % Thus, have to redump the .fmt file after changing main_memory; 


Ciao
Andreas