From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: "infinite" paper height
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:34:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BCD560.2020402@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607181202.04398.ricardroca@gmail.com>
Ricard Roca wrote:
> I think that's not possible because of TeX. TeX limits any dimension to 2^30
> scaled points (~5.75 m).
I just realized you can cheat just a little:
\hsize=575cm
\advance \hsize \hsize
\message{\the\hsize} % reports 32720.66928pt ~ 11.5m
A nice one for Pavel's new 'TeX surprises' in eurobachotex
next year.
> But that's only the TeX part. I don't know if dvi drivers can combine several
> TeX pages in one printer page infinitely. Possibly any of the PostScript
> tools?
DVI maybe, but my Acrobat Reader 7 silently drops the bottom off pages
that are higher than 200in (508cm).
Cheers, taco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-18 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-18 11:33 Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 12:02 ` Ricard Roca
2006-07-18 12:34 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2006-07-18 12:38 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-18 21:08 ` Martin Schröder
2006-07-18 22:15 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-18 12:09 ` Patrick Gundlach
2006-07-18 22:29 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-18 12:12 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-18 12:39 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-18 13:22 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 12:16 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-18 12:40 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 13:35 ` Adam Lindsay
2006-07-18 13:56 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 21:17 ` OT: formulae in InDesign (was: "infinite" paper height) Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-07-18 21:48 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 22:32 ` "infinite" paper height Hans Hagen
2006-07-19 0:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-19 8:02 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-19 23:49 ` Mojca Miklavec
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