From 3d29478cc9c32a79293a92fcbf1b88136aad7520 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Uwe Steinmann <steinm@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 17:03:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] conversion from text to image will use only the first 30000
 chars

---
 inc/inc.ClassConversionServiceTextToImage.php | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/inc/inc.ClassConversionServiceTextToImage.php b/inc/inc.ClassConversionServiceTextToImage.php
index 6c526c695..56a311ec6 100644
--- a/inc/inc.ClassConversionServiceTextToImage.php
+++ b/inc/inc.ClassConversionServiceTextToImage.php
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ class SeedDMS_ConversionServiceTextToImage extends SeedDMS_ConversionServiceBase
 				$draw->setFontSize($fontSize);
 				$draw->setTextAlignment(Imagick::ALIGN_LEFT);
 
-				$content = file_get_contents($infile);
+				/* Limit the number of characters to 30000 which is roughly 9 pages */
+				$content = file_get_contents($infile, false, null, 0, 30000);
 				$lines = preg_split('~\R~',$content);
 				$boxY = $boxTop;
 				$pagecount = 0;