Problems when Exporting large PDF files.

Hi there,
We're trying to run a scheduled report that's huge and the PDF would usually be about 2,000 pages. The smaller resultset of about 1000 pages would work eventually, but 2000 seems to be not working.
We're using BOXI R2 in our servers right now.
I've thought of a work around this but don't know if it's possible with the BOBJ way. That would be for BOBJ to set the start and end limit of the report result-set and instead of generating one PDF of 2,000 pages, we can use two 1000 page reports. This could be done by defining the starting offset for the resultset and saving into a variable that the next resultset would take from. I.e. end-offset = start-offset+1000 ( considering start offset is 0 ) . And once the cycle is complete ( the instances executed) . The offset ( count ) resets.
Any ideas are welcome.

So just a follow-up to the original question. To refine it :
1) Is there a way to save a variable ( in this case, offset ) either from SQL or a report , in a temporary place (not the infocube though ) .
2) Is there a way to FETCH that variable/value the next time the report is run and reset it once it's finish?

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