> > >Otto made some bitchin' "Mapper" maps of Paris from PDF files. Why
>> >couldn't you convert ANY PDF file to a "Mapper" map and read it like
>> >a map; full-size, perfectly laid-out?
>>
> > not larger than the screen.
>
>Mapper maps are usually larger than the screen,
>that's what Mapper is for, basically: it's a viewer for pictures (much)
>larger than the screen. OTOH,
the width <==> only to scroll down during reading
> converting an Acrobat document to a bitmap
>of a sufficienly high resolution (so you can actually read the text)
>would yield HUGE maps, even for comparatively simple documents, so I
>don't think this is viable.
large files.
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