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I have been wondering if there is a way to control the size (height and width) that a tikzpicture environment can support for drawing and I have often seen only undefined answers being cited. I'm afraid I may not have searched this answer enough and it exists here on the site, but I would like to know if I can control and extend indefinitely the number of pages a tikzpicture continues to the next page avoiding getting the "Dimension too" error large "? Note: happened once I was able to extend a tikzpicture environment to be drawn on 21 pages (A4), it was the most I could. I always wish I could continue a single tikzpicture for the next unlimited pages (except the hardware's own ability to render the generated pdf display). To do so see the question Breaking pictures across multiple pages

Yaacov NNNNM
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    There is a limit on the size of the tikzpicture because the TeX dimensions are limited to about 16384pt. To have a picture larger than that you'd probably need to change TeX itself... – Phelype Oleinik Aug 15 '19 at 23:20
  • @PhelypeOleinik I know the folder where the TeX files are on my system, such as texmf, but what would be the exact file or files I need to change and which keys or lines of code I need to change if you can help me because I'm not an expert. – Yaacov NNNNM Aug 15 '19 at 23:24
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    I'm afraid very few people around here would be able to help you with that (I, for one, can't). The limit of 16384pt is due to the type of variable (32-bit integer) TeX uses internally to represent dimensions. To enlarge that limit you'd need to change all of the variables in TeX's code to 64-bit integers (or more). That's not a trivial (if even fasible) task. What is your use-case? Do you really need such a large picture? I'd suggest you draw a smaller picture, and then rescale it. – Phelype Oleinik Aug 15 '19 at 23:30
  • I imagine the extent of the task to accomplish this goal. Answering your question @PhelypeOleinik I am trying to continue a network designed with tikznetwork package https://ctan.org/pkg/tikz-network, which involves about thirty layers for now and would still like to continue adding more layers. – Yaacov NNNNM Aug 15 '19 at 23:47
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    I'm the Jon Snow of TikZ, so I can't help you there. What I Imagine that would postpone your problem would be some option like scale=0.5 in the tikzpicture, so that every length would be halved and you would (theoretically) be able to make a picture twice as large as your current one. Later you'd need to rescale that with some other software. I imagine you are making some kind of poster, so you could have your printer software rescale your picture... That or somehow split the picture in smaller, more manageable pieces. – Phelype Oleinik Aug 15 '19 at 23:53
  • @PhelypeOleinik For now I'm grateful, I'll keep researching and trying what advised me :) – Yaacov NNNNM Aug 15 '19 at 23:57

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