Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and large-paged pdfs

On 11/8/2012 4:32 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

On 11/08/2012 03:51 PM, Martin Schröder wrote:

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2012/11/8 Taco Hoekwater :

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Actually, this is a bug report. If you try to include a pdf with a large page size:

large being > (\maxdimen / 2.8) ?

Yes.

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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.

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