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I made a video game out of a PDF. It has 200 000 pages. Can you beat it?

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Re: I made a video game out of a PDF. It has 200 000 pages. Can you beat it?

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Uhhhh.... "can I open it?" is the better question. I'm rather afraid it will crash my computer.

The pdf is only like 150, so you'd have to own a real potato to crash it.

I haven't had a chance to try on a computer, but my phone will open it, albeit minus the interactivity. Looks pretty

Re: I made a video game out of a PDF. It has 200 000 pages. Can you beat it?

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post #3

Uhhhh.... "can I open it?" is the better question. I'm rather afraid it will crash my computer.

The pdf is only like 150, so you'd have to own a real potato to crash it. I haven't had a chance to try on a computer, but my phone will open it, albeit minus the interactivity. Looks pretty

It’s a 96MB zip file. You mean it only compressed to 2/4 of its original size?

Re: I made a video game out of a PDF. It has 200 000 pages. Can you beat it?

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The pdf is only like 150, so you'd have to own a real potato to crash it. I haven't had a chance to try on a computer, but my phone will open it, albeit minus the interactivity. Looks pretty

It’s a 96MB zip file. You mean it only compressed to 2/4 of its original size?

189M reduced to 93M yes. But the PDF internal page streams are already compressed, which explain the limited effect of ZIP-compressing it.

Re: I made a video game out of a PDF. It has 200 000 pages. Can you beat it?

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Uhhhh.... "can I open it?" is the better question. I'm rather afraid it will crash my computer.

The game was made to run on Sumatra PDF Reader. It won't work on Adobe Acrobat Reader. Apart from that, it should run fine on most computers, as Sumatra is very memory efficient!