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Acrobat 7’s maximum PDF size limit (381 km²) overlaid on Germany (lemmy.world)
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[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To satisfy the anything but metric postulate: 381 km originally are 15 million inches.

However, using some tricks, the size isn't limited to that.

https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/

Remark: The side length of the square correspods to 381 km, subsequently, its area is 145161 km^2 .
381 km^2 are slightly smaller than the city of Cologne.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago

Good to see Germany won't run out of PDF for their digital mapping efforts and need a costly replacement.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure, we would use a costly alternative anyways.

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