How to fix PCGen out-of-memory errors
On Mac, I frequently get out of memory errors when rendering to PDF. These steps will solve it, but need to be done for each new download of PCGen.
1) Right-click PCGen.app, Show Package Contents
2) In the Contents folder, open Info.plist in any text editor (TextEdit.app)
3) Find the line
4) Change the next line to
5) maybe increase those numbers even more if you’ve got a sturdy machine and don’t mind trading some RAM for better performance.
#pcgen #outofmemory
Heh, amusingly I upgraded to Java 8 on this machine for unrelated reasons tonight, and discovered that MaxPermSize is deprecated and ignored. Looks like a problem that won’t bite me again.