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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">I am trying to create a very large format 26in x 26in pdf file. However, tex (TeX live 2014) says that the dimension of my</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">epsf file is too large. What might my options be here, is there a way to convince TeX to move forward.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">Here are the second to fifth lines at the beginning of the epsf file single.0 ---</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">%%BoundingBox: 130 -1 2017 1837</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">%%HiResBoundingBox: 130.07765 -0.25 2016.2 1836.13254</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">%%Creator: MetaPost 1.902</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">%%CreationDate: 2015.08.15:1649</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">Here is the output from TeX ---</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">(single.0</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">! Dimension too large.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier"><recently read> \epsfxsize</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">\epsfspecial #1->\epsftmp =10\epsfxsize</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier"> \divide \epsftmp by \pspoints \ifnum...</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">\epsfsetgraph ... to \epsfxsize {\epsfspecial {#1}</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier"> \hfil }\else \vfil \hbox t...</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">\centerline #1->\line {\hss #1</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier"> \hss }</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">l.2 \centerline{\epsfxsize30in\epsfbox{single.0}}</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">For the curious, I have attached a reduced version of the file I am trying to create --- single.pdf</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">The reduction is created within MetaPost.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">Many thanks in advance.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Courier">Walt Burkhard</p>
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