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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure and large-paged pdfs
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:32:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509BD07F.9060707@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP7DCDeZbh28L6ax-RsJ42zCSE1jNN+Hdci-Py-zC6khEQabRg@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/08/2012 03:51 PM, Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2012/11/8 Taco Hoekwater <taco@bittext.nl>:
>> Actually, this is a bug report. If you try to include a pdf with a large
>> page size:
>
> large being > (\maxdimen / 2.8) ?

Yes.

> Best
>     Martin
>
> PS: What would break if we extended dimens to 64/63 bit in LuaTeX?

Some poor programmer's head ;)

Seriously, the actual implementation would be quite a lot of work.

There are definite places in the backend where a 64-bit number
would be a no-no, and these have to be captured somewhere.

And then there is the lua_Number that is a double, so it cannot fit
a full 64-bit number without precision loss, etc.

Best wishes,
Taco


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-08 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-08 14:18 Taco Hoekwater
2012-11-08 14:51 ` Martin Schröder
2012-11-08 15:32   ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2012-11-08 15:59     ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-08 15:09 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-08 15:13   ` Hans Hagen

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