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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by macropin on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:27PM (#39212172)
Reminds me of this PDF I created more than a decade ago from a Postscript implementation of the game of life. Seems it still works, but causes MacOS preview to crash. https://andrewcutler.net/docs/joke/life.pdf
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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by JKCalhoun on Thursday February 01, 2024 @08:43AM (#39215819)
Whew! Didn't crash on my Mac OS — just a static Game of Life render. This machine is still on Monterey FWIW.
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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by maleldil on Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:23AM (#39216218)
It doesn't cause Preview to crash on Sonoma. FWIW, I can't see any animation, just the final state, while Firefox's PDF reader does show some animation. Skim has the same behaviour as Preview but doesn't show the grid.
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