[reportlab-users] Huge PDF problem! ,-)

[Robin Becker]

In article <1025689169.3d22c65147378@webmail.in-berlin.de>, Dinu Gherman
<gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de> writes
>Hi,
>
>has anybody here ever produced *really* big PDFs (a few
>meters wide or tall)? It seems like there are some limits
>in AR if not in PDF itself... The rest is something I've 
>posted recently on the RL team list...
>
>Dinu
....Dinu all numbers in PDF are represented in points using a 16.16
fixed point signed binary representation. So internally numbers are
limited to the range +/- 32767.999984741211. The smallest non-zeros are 
+/- 1.52587890625e-005 (ie +/- 1/(2**16)) all this means that your
largest canvas is around 11.55982221683926 meters on a side.
-- 
Robin Becker