The 78,000 Page PDF

These PDFs defy the laws of physics 😩

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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - My Stupid Quest
1:50 - ARM Reference PDF
2:10 - SQL Server PDF
2:21 - An Observation About Documentation
2:46 - Visual Studio PDF
3:20 - The 78,000 Page PDF
4:31 - What Could Be Bigger?
5:14 - Even Larger Mythical PDFs
6:41 - The Largest PDF I Could Find

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[ThioJoe]

Coming in hot with the useful practical tutorials 😤🤡

[SanderEvers]

Now all we need is someone to port Doom to PDF.

[sb]

"I ain't reading all that"

[volvo]

A PDF game, now that's pretty unique!

[amrojjeh]

What's funny is that Adobe invented the PDF format yet Sumatra does better than their own flagship product

[henrisendelbach]

My largest PDF was 180GB due to me accidentally putting the entire photo gallery into it (863.727) Pages

[hedgeearthridge]

The size efficiency of PDFs is always astounding to me. A small book with full typesetting and everything can be smaller than a phone camera jpeg.

[resresres]

I've made PDFs for my work that were on the order of 200, 000+ pages that i ended up having to break down the file because adobe bogged down and ran way too slow with that many pages. If you are wondering, they were conformity packages that contained the entirety of certs, inspections and testing for every single part that went on a plane for a small airplane manufacturer.

[magma]

I remember at my school library there were a bunch of choose your own adventure books called "Combat Heroes" which had book based maze adventures, and even allowed you to cross-reference pages and fight someone reading the opponent's book (White Warlord vs. Black Baron, or Scarlet Sorcerer vs. Emerald Enchanter). This PDF version is a smart recreation of the system.

[grayrabbit]

There's a 1.6GB PDF file on our server. Discovery in a legal case. The best part is that the idiot who put it together attempted to redact things by drawing black boxes over things. Thank you kind person for showing us where the juicy stuff was, and allowing us to see it!

[Hobbes]

I loved the tacit recommendation of Sumatra PDF reader. I'm always on the lookout for quick "light weight" apps for everyday stuff. I'd love a video of about light weight apps

[windows.]

The biggest PDF I ever seen was intel manual, almost 5k pages

[NATESOR]

I love how you have 78k pages of info on biztalk and are still like, "idk what it does really. Something about businesses talking to each other, I guess. No real info out there on it." I feel that.

[antiKhaos]

Biggest I've seen is the RCMP's(Canadian FBI) firearms reference table. 225MB and 105205 pages and growing.

It chokes out most PDF readers.

[RobertLewis]

That interactive PDF RPG game is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Thanks.

[Blue-Maned_Hawk]

The largest PDFs i've ever actually kinda sorta read were the PDFs for the C++ specification and the Vulkan specification. They're only in the ballpark of 3, 000 pages!

Anyway, i happen to know that the largest _page_ size that one can make with Adobe Acrobat is 381km × 381km.

[Adam-Mei]

I remember getting my rental history from movie gallery in PDF as an email I could download that was a little more than 25, 000 pages then swapped from AOL to yahoo and lost it. It started out as a Mom & Pop then was bought by Movie Gallery, and I was on an account with my parents' and sibling's. The history went back to the late 70's early 80's with countless movies and games rented and bought from there.

[mtranchi]

3:14 No one man can ever know the depth of Visual Studio.

[siberx]

4:48 Old-school sysadmins would call this one a zip bomb, xml bomb, or similar depending on the exact filetype on context used to generate this sort of recursive expansion of a file. Can cause plenty of havoc when your parser isn't designed to detect and shortcut cases like this.

[FelixxileF]

8:08 If that Character Info actually works on every screen (and the game is not 100% scripted/predicted), than this not only doubles the pages.
There is HP, MP and Gold and you would need a page for every (at this stage in the game) possible combination of those three values.