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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

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Post by galaxyLogic »

wongarsu wrote: post #112
flexagoon wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are two modes in Google Maps - one shows the map in a fixed rotation (north on top by default, but you can rotate the map with two fingers), the other mode automatically rotates the map based on what direction you're facing. *Facing*, not moving, so you don't actually have to walk for it to determine the direction. You can switch between the modes by clicking a compass icon

Part of the confusion might be that it's pointing in the direction the phone is facing. Which is kind of obvious, but notably doesn't work if you put your phone in an upright phone holder, as many people do in their car.

> pointing in the direction the phone is facing

Do you mean where the top edge of the phone is directed towards when I hold the phone so that its display is pointing towards the sky?

Or where the backside of the phone is directed at if I hold it upright in front of my face?

Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

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Post by galaxyLogic »

flexagoon wrote: post #89
galaxyLogic wrote: post #53

Earlier 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…

There are two modes in Google Maps - one shows the map in a fixed rotation (north on top by default, but you can rotate the map with two fingers), the other mode automatically rotates the map based on what direction you're facing. *Facing*, not moving, so you don't actually have to walk for it to determine the direction. You can switch between the modes by clicking a compass icon

Thanks for the tip about the modes

Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

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Post by niels_bom »

rqtwteye wrote: post #111
jl6 wrote: post #68

PDF 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…

“ PDF is a fabulous format” I will never forgive the pain PDF caused me when I worked on a project to parse millions of PDF files from various sources. Just reconstructing paragraphs was a huge effort not even mentioning parsing tables. I think we should do better for something that’s basically a standard. PDF manuals also suck big time.

Did you go the “display it, then OCR what’s displayed” route as a last ditch effort?

Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

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Post by addminztrator »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #139
financypants wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I buy all my books paperback, even if I listen to them on audible, for posterity’s sake.

Do you buy them after you’ve finished listening?

You guys buy books? I only buy the ones I keep coming back to after I've read them through libgen

Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

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Post by puck »

mrb wrote: post #11

Fun experiment alexwlchan! Two small mistakes in your post: you write "15,000,000,000.00 in" and "that the size of a page is 15 billion inches", but it should be 15 million. You said you had difficulty formatting text. Here is a "hello world" pdf that just has these two words on a page: copy and paste this text (stripping leading spaces on each line) and save it in a .pdf file. Basically in order to write text you ha…

> Please don’t try to print it.

How will I know if I can fold it more than 7 times, though?

Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

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Post by account42 »

shp0ngle wrote: post #95
jl6 wrote: post #68

PDF 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…

about pdf/a... until recently there was not even an easy way to figure out if pdf is really pdf/a; now there is (verapdf) and it's crazy complex piece of software and maybe I'm wrong but the only way to convert arbitrary pdf to pdf/a with open source software is to convert it to postscript and back with ghostscript - which is affero licensed... with all the possible problems it entails. (there is old version that is…

> which is affero licensed... with all the possible problems it entails

And what problems are those? Besides making it harder to leech off the community without giving back of course.

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