what does mean "larger than germany" for a document file ?
PDFs have physical dimensions in them (I think most document formats do), so you can literally define a square of 5x5cm in the document for example.
Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
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Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#102An idea to send a DDOS attack to company LAN printers
Wouldn't they just check their available paper, notice there is no AGermany size and give up?
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#103PDF is a fabulous format. I mean, it’s an awful format in so many ways, technically speaking, but the net effect of having a self-contained static file in your custody stands in blissful contrast to the user-hostile dynamic/SaaS website that can be taken away at a moment’s notice. PDF/A is the true PDF - it strips out most of the dangerous cruft. Anyway, if you like weird PDF hijinks, here’s a polyglot PDF/A CSV file…
The "in your custody" part is important, when Amazon starts yoinking books from your account.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#104>Please don’t try to print it. Sounds like a print bomb waiting to happen. Last time I had a printer it was next to impossible to cancel a print job on Windows. Back when people had wifi printers that were open or ill-secured, those were fun times.
when i read > Please don’t try to print it. my first reaction has been: you are not my mom. >:-)
Just click “scale to fit on one page”.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#105Slightly tangential: if you are hacking on PDFs, manually or otherwise, this is an incredibly useful tool: https://pdfcpu.io/ (not the author, just a user)
Thanks for this. Any other tools that are useful when hacking on PDFs?
I need to do a lot of programmatic PDF manipulation at work.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have the map of US in my cell-phone. I'm somewhat confused by its directions however when I look at the map and want to go somewhere. Is the top-part of the map where I'm moving? Or is the top-part North? Seems it is not North and that is confusing because maps I've seen before have North at the top always. If I turn 90 degrees, the map turns around. But I thought it was I who turned around. And if I stop, the map…
I really hate that too. You are in a intersection and the voice says "Drive north for x miles/km". What is wrong with "turn right and drive for x miles/km"? I normally have zero clue in what direction north is especially when I am in a location i have never been before. I drive a bike and have the phone in my pocket and can therefore not see any arrow that the app might display. I only have the audio to navigate from…
> You are in a intersection and the voice says "Drive north for x miles/km".
Does that really happen? I have never experienced it. How do they tell which way is north?
Highway 101 runs through San Jose pretty much due east/west, but because it also runs up to San Francisco, it is officially a north-south highway. So you check your position on the map and you're traveling due east along an east/west road. Is that "north"? (Of course not. It's "south".)
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#107"Please don’t try to print it." :-)
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#108Long story short: the original tweet makes a confusion between PDF (the file format) and adobe acrobat (the PDF reader) : the 381km2 is an acrobat limit, not a PDF limit Funny document, still
> Long story short: the original tweet
I don’t think the tweet is relevant at all and it’s a disservice to this post to feature it that prominently in a summary. A more interesting conclusion is that PDF files can have dimensions larger than the Universe, and an example is provided.
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#109Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah but the javascript can only do things inside the pdf.
What javascript can escape my browser, (edit: or an HTML page) for example?
XMLHttpRequest to send anything the site knows anywhere.
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