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). 👀
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?
It's just slow
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.
"Well grandson, I printed out the FaceBook this morning, and you'll never believe what your aunt wrote..."
...yeah I'm gonna have to get you started on how those readings went
There's not much to say. No one cared. We just ate our dinner and let him do his thing.
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.
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
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
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
You did the math
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.
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.
What's the article? Fish probably read the same one!
link is under the 👀 emoji in the op
Stealth link, cheers!
Imagine drawing a 145,161 kilometer long line.
Look at these