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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
#62I can't wait for people to start rendering their CVs with this trick >:)
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#63Fun 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…
Argh! I knew I was going to make a numerical mistake somewhere, thanks for spotting it. Correction will be up shortly. Thanks for spotting it! :D And thanks for the text example! This looks like what I was trying, but clearly I had a mistake somewhere.
Spotted another math mistake:
> The default unit size is 1/72 inch, so the page is 300 × 72 = 4.17 inches.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#64I take offense to that diagram; Germany should refuse to be covered by a PDF that's not in proper DIN format. In theory, DIN paper sizes go all the way from subatomic to the size of the universe. It seems like A(-39) is barely too small to cover Germany's land mass, but A(-40) should be more than sufficient. That's 882 x 1247 km if I didn't miscalculate.
Oh here we go again.
That's actually quite funny, especially because Germany almost has portrait DIN format.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#65I open the PDF in Google Chrome on a Mac. When I Ctrl+P, the dialog says it's 1 Page. I don't try to print it, but I think it will not consume more than 1 page? Also, PDF preview in Chrome simply showing it like a normal PDF, but Preview seems confused (gray background instead of white)?
> I don't try to print it
Well, you can even without consuming a single sheet: just print to PDF.
> Preview seems confused (gray background instead of white)?
It tries to render it and fit in the preview.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#66>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.
Only slightly more reliable method: unplug the printer and throw the computer out the window.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
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was? More like is. They're overlooking one right now, because of the last one they did.
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#68PDF 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 that is also its own original soundtrack as a polyglot Amiga soundtracker mod:
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#69It seems germane at this point to paraphrase Steven Wright. “I have a map of the United States. It’s actual size. “
Umberto Eco also has something to say on that subject – On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...
Re: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
#70I 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…
And Umberto Eco expanded on that with On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...