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). 👀

  • @[email protected]
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    499 months ago

    That’s the size my supposedly powerful computer thinks every PDF is with Acrobat Pro.

  • @[email protected]
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    219 months ago

    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?

    • @fartsparkles
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      679 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        189 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          109 months ago

          “Well grandson, I printed out the FaceBook this morning, and you’ll never believe what your aunt wrote…”

          • @[email protected]
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            39 months ago

            There’s not much to say. No one cared. We just ate our dinner and let him do his thing.

          • @fartsparkles
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            9 months ago

            Back in my day, we had a fat guy with a huge bell who would shout out the news from the streets.

            Kids today are so softened with their paper news and crossword puzzles. We had to make do with hangman and guessing a word. No pencils and erasers to rub out a guess, that hangman was coming for you and there was no turning back. You had to stare death right in the face. Just like that bubonic plague. You’d wheel your own grandma’s cadaver into the streets to be collected. And you’d listen to the news being shouted out and you’d count your socks lucky.

            Kiss Kids today. So soft. With their paper news. Crosswords. And medicine. Soft, I say. Get ‘em down the mines for a few shifts. Sort them right out.

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              39 months ago

              Kiss today. So soft. With their paper news. Crosswords. And medicine. Soft, I say. Get ‘em down the mines for a few shifts. Sort them right out.

              imagine kisses going down a mine

    • @zaph
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      49 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      129 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        I’m in Canada so I picked that out almost immediately, the Europe one was what tripped me up lol

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          Lol, I’m in Europe, so I know to look for Italy. I was thinking that Louisiana had been cut in half and sized way up for some reason

  • sik0fewl
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    179 months ago

    Brutal. Can’t even use it to make a 1:1 scale map of Europe.

    • merde alorsOP
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      19 months ago

      France doesn’t surrender, it just waits for the U.S. to come save it 🤭

  • circuitfarmer
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    69 months ago

    “Per Deutschland Format”, they could have at least made it work for that

        • merde alorsOP
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          29 months ago

          coincidence.

          i’ve found trojans in adobe acrobat and java folders of a friend’s desktop. After cleaning the thing, I was searching for foss alternatives to acrobat and stumbled on this article.