Spyke
lemmy.world

That’s the size my supposedly powerful computer thinks every PDF is with Acrobat Pro.

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Userreply
lemmy.ml

English is not my first language. What does it mean for an app to be a dog?

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feddit.de

Turns out if you rotate Canada by 90 degrees, I will stare at my phone for several minutes in public contemplating coastlines to try and place it

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lemmy.ml

I'm in Canada so I picked that out almost immediately, the Europe one was what tripped me up lol

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Lol, I’m in Europe, so I know to look for Italy. I was thinking that Louisiana had been cut in half and sized way up for some reason

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aussie.zone

Why the heck is it constrained in inches? If I open a pdf on two screens of different sizes, with the zoom at 100%, will the features be the same size or not?

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sh.itjust.works

Because Acrobat is designed for the ancient ritual of “printing” which used rectangular pieces of pressed plant fibre that didn’t even have any pixels and needed to be measured with sticks with lines on them.

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Psythikreply
lemm.ee

I remember when HP printers had an option to automatically print the news out for you every morning, as if you couldn't just read it off the screen.

Don't even get me started on my dad, who printed every email and read them to us at the dinner table.

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"Well grandson, I printed out the FaceBook this morning, and you'll never believe what your aunt wrote..."

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Jackcooperreply
lemmy.world

...yeah I'm gonna have to get you started on how those readings went

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There's not much to say. No one cared. We just ate our dinner and let him do his thing.

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sh.itjust.works

Back in my day, we had a fat guy with a huge bell who would shout out the news from the streets.

Kids today are so softened with their paper news and crossword puzzles. We had to make do with hangman and guessing a word. No pencils and erasers to rub out a guess, that hangman was coming for you and there was no turning back. You had to stare death right in the face. Just like that bubonic plague. You’d wheel your own grandma’s cadaver into the streets to be collected. And you’d listen to the news being shouted out and you’d count your socks lucky.

Kiss Kids today. So soft. With their paper news. Crosswords. And medicine. Soft, I say. Get ‘em down the mines for a few shifts. Sort them right out.

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Kiss today. So soft. With their paper news. Crosswords. And medicine. Soft, I say. Get ‘em down the mines for a few shifts. Sort them right out.

imagine kisses going down a mine

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Psythikreply
lemm.ee

I know what a newspaper is, wiseass. :P

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No joke; I was serious. This was something that he actually did.

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A pdf is a piece of paper you can't fold. So zooming or using a different resolution monitor would be like holding a magnifying glass up to a piece of paper but not a copy. They're still the same size one just looks bigger.

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kbin.social

Brutal. Can't even use it to make a 1:1 scale map of Europe.

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emhlreply
feddit.de

DIN A-38 should still fit inside Germany A-39 would be larger than Germany

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feddit.uk

I see you also listened to No Such Thing As A Fish last week!

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smegreply
feddit.uk

Comedy fact podcast No Such Thing As A Fish recently did an episode where they talked about how the largest PDF allowed by Adobe Acrobat is bigger than Belgium.

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rnerclereply
sh.itjust.works

coincidence.

i've found trojans in adobe acrobat and java folders of a friend's desktop. After cleaning the thing, I was searching for foss alternatives to acrobat and stumbled on this article.

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smegreply
feddit.uk

What's the article? Fish probably read the same one!

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