Yes, itās the limit Acrobat imposes or uses, but in the preview itās unlimited:
I could keep going. And I did. Eventually I ended up with a PDF that Preview claimed is larger than the entire universe ā approximately 37 trillion light years square.
Its quite scary what they can doā¦ I kinda wished theyād appended to the file type extension (like the Office team did back in 2007) for the various recent standard revisions. But thatās purely my opinion, not really a defendable standpoint from practical perspective, etc.
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Fuck adobe. Iām sure thereās an open source alternative I can use to work on my 1:1 scale map of Europe.
Actually, the larges pdf that
can behas yet been created is approximately 37 trillion light years square.https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/
Cool post! Also, they never explicitly say thatās the largest possible. Itās just the largest they ended up at.
True.
The article says thatās the limit acrobat imposes.
Yes, itās the limit Acrobat imposes or uses, but in the preview itās unlimited:
Thank fuck. Can you imagine what would happen if they hadnāt limited its size?
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There are massive CAD files of entire cities and I imagine even states out there. You may want to print to PDF lol.
Interesting - that could be 2^30 pt, a possible clue to the technical origins of this anecdotal limitation.
PDFs were a mistake we should have never let Adobe make for us
PDFs can run doom.
Its quite scary what they can doā¦ I kinda wished theyād appended to the file type extension (like the Office team did back in 2007) for the various recent standard revisions. But thatās purely my opinion, not really a defendable standpoint from practical perspective, etc.
The boss: āYeah, can you print that for me to review?ā