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Acrobat 7’s maximum PDF size limit (381 km²) overlaid on Germany (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Beginning with PDF 1.6, the size of the default user space unit may be set with the UserUnit entry of the page dictionary. Acrobat 7.0 supports a maximum UserUnit value of 75,000, which gives a maximum page dimension of 15,000,000 inches (14,400 * 75,000 * 1 ⁄ 72). The minimum UserUnit value is 1.0 (the default).

15 million inches happens to be exactly 381 km Source

[–] gressen@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's sooooo arbitrary.

[–] Arigion@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

True. But thankfully most of the world uses centimetrs instead of inches nowadays. 😉