Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
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Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
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Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#2This was a fun read! Thank you
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#3Coincidentally, I just finished watching a video that explored the same topic of massive and unique PDF files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvVNRRQjDh8
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#4I cannot let this opportunity go by without quoting On Exactitude in Science by Borges in its entirety
". . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography."
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#5About 30 years ago I interviewed to be a summer intern at Microsoft, and one of the interviewers asked a question very similar to this but regarding Excel. This is the kind of topic that never gets old for understanding a person’s curiosity and ability to dissect the potential issues.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#6I cannot let this opportunity go by without quoting On Exactitude in Science by Borges in its entirety ". . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size w…
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Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#7Please, nobody tell Randall Munroe!
Because I would literally spend days worth of time scrolling.
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#8While the Germany PDF actually scrolls pretty quickly at 100% zoom (makes one realize just how much text is read in a day), the Universe one is pretty fun, Firefox's PDF reader at 100% zoom obviously doesn't budge the scrollbar at all.
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#9I cannot let this opportunity go by without quoting On Exactitude in Science by Borges in its entirety ". . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size w…
Or a portion of one of it's inspirations: Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
"We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!"
"Have you used it much?" I enquired.
"It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight ! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#10This was a fun read! Thank you
I second that comment! That was the most enjoyably nerdy thing I’ve read in quite a while.