2y ago

The maximum size of a PDF compared to Europe.

Page dimensions are not limited by the format itself. However, Adobe Acrobat imposes a limit of 15 million in by 15 million in, or 225 trillion in2 (145,161 km2). 👀

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That’s the size my supposedly powerful computer thinks every PDF is with Acrobat Pro.
- Acrobat pro is such a dog of an app now.
  
  English is not my first language. What does it mean for an app to be a dog?
Reminds me of this classic
- Turns out if you rotate Canada by 90 degrees, I will stare at my phone for several minutes in public contemplating coastlines to try and place it
  
  I'm in Canada so I picked that out almost immediately, the Europe one was what tripped me up lol
Why the heck is it constrained in inches? If I open a pdf on two screens of different sizes, with the zoom at 100%, will the features be the same size or not?
- Because Acrobat is designed for the ancient ritual of “printing” which used rectangular pieces of pressed plant fibre that didn’t even have any pixels and needed to be measured with sticks with lines on them.
  
  I remember when HP printers had an option to automatically print the news out for you every morning, as if you couldn't just read it off the screen.
  Don't even get me started on my dad, who printed every email and read them to us at the dinner table.
- A pdf is a piece of paper you can't fold. So zooming or using a different resolution monitor would be like holding a magnifying glass up to a piece of paper but not a copy. They're still the same size one just looks bigger.
- The 100% magnification should be 96 ppi times your global scaling factor.
Brutal. Can't even use it to make a 1:1 scale map of Europe.
- Just enough for one of your mom's haunches.
Whoops, and France just surrendered to it
- France doesn't surrender, it just waits for the U.S. to come save it 🤭
"Per Deutschland Format", they could have at least made it work for that
- Per Deutschland would ba a sized A format paper
  
  DIN A-38 should still fit inside Germany A-39 would be larger than Germany
I see you also listened to No Such Thing As A Fish last week!
- can you elaborate?
  
  Comedy fact podcast No Such Thing As A Fish recently did an episode where they talked about how the largest PDF allowed by Adobe Acrobat is bigger than Belgium.
Imagine drawing a 145,161 kilometer long line.

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