pdfbeads fails on really large images
// Environment is 1.6ghz quad-core, 1 GB DDR Ram. From top I can see Memory allocations up to 87%, and CPU occupation of 87% (means like 350% single-core power) which is the upper limit each I think. The input image is a unprepared 90MB tif.
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.11/lib/pdfbeads/pdfbuilder.rb:267:in /': nil can't be coerced into Float (TypeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.11/lib/pdfbeads/pdfbuilder.rb:267:inblock in process'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.11/lib/pdfbeads/pdfbuilder.rb:202:in each' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.11/lib/pdfbeads/pdfbuilder.rb:202:inprocess'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.11/bin/pdfbeads:202:in <top (required)>' from /usr/local/bin/pdfbeads:23:inload'
from /usr/local/bin/pdfbeads:23:in `
Maybe related to #3