From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: scientific notation in PDF file
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 15:58:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5378BC83.7070004@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDha9MGzCuHtdjfy6eqK7mt5asJ_452kW=uzJy_z54BrMAA=Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/18/2014 1:25 PM, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> Dear Developers and All,
>
> when I create a PDF dictionary with a small number
>
> local mydict = lpdf.dictionary { TT = 0.000000000000000001 }
> lpdf.flushobject(mydict)
>
> I get in PDF
>
> << /TT 1e-18 >>
>
> that confuses the Adobe Reader (if dictionary is used).
>
> As far as I can investigate, lpdf.flushobject(mydict) calls
> pdf.immediateobj(tostring(mydict)) and tostring does the actual damage
> by introducing scientific notation.
yes, tostring is not the most clever one on that
> What is the correct way to deal with the problem?
I'll use a different serializer. In next beta
Hans
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2014-05-18 11:25 Michail Vidiassov
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