From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure and large-paged pdfs
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:59:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509BD6F8.1010907@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509BD07F.9060707@elvenkind.com>
On 11/8/2012 4:32 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 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.
and 48 bit?
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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
2012-11-08 15:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-11-08 15:09 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-08 15:13 ` Hans Hagen
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