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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). πŸ‘€

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acrobat pro is such a dog of an app now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

English is not my first language. What does it mean for an app to be a dog?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's just slow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

short for "dog shit"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because Acrobat is designed for the ancient ritual of β€œprinting” 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] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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] 10 points 1 year ago

"Well grandson, I printed out the FaceBook this morning, and you'll never believe what your aunt wrote..."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...yeah I'm gonna have to get you started on how those readings went

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] zaph 4 points 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago

The 100% magnification should be 96 ppi times your global scaling factor.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this classic

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Just enough for one of your mom's haunches.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoops, and France just surrendered to it

[–] merde 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] CookieJarObserver 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Per Deutschland would ba a sized A format paper

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DIN A-38 should still fit inside Germany A-39 would be larger than Germany

[–] CookieJarObserver 1 points 1 year ago

You did the math

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see you also listened to No Such Thing As A Fish last week!

[–] merde 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] merde 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the article? Fish probably read the same one!

[–] merde 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

link is under the πŸ‘€ emoji in the op

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stealth link, cheers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine drawing a 145,161 kilometer long line.