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What’s the absolute largest paper size permissible with pdflatex?

I want a long document to fit in a single page. That would make proofreading easier for me.

The most I got so far were a few 1500 mm pages. It seems that 5000 mm pages can have at most 1500 mm of text before pagebreaks are inserted. In other words, the same number of pages is created by either:

\usepackage[margin=1in, paperheight=1500mm]{geometry}

or

\usepackage[margin=1in, paperheight=5000mm]{geometry}

How can I make pages not to break at 1500 mm in a 5000 mm page?

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  • My question is about page-breaking too. A 5 meters page, it seems, can have only 1.5 meter of text. The remaining 3.5 meters are blank. Thanks. – n.r. Dec 12 '12 at 01:36
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    You can actually push the page size to 200in (or 5080mm). I'm not receiving your 1.5m maximum of the text block when I use your setting \usepackage[margin=1in,paperheight=200in]{geometry}. What did you test your text with? \lipsum only produces 150 paragraphs of text which fills a 200in page about 80%. You must be inserting a manual page break, or doing something different. Use the lipsum package and insert \lipsum[1-150]\lipsum[1-150] (300 paragraphs) as your document content only. Does the text still stop @ 1.5m? – Werner Dec 12 '12 at 02:12
  • Yep. And the content produced by \lipsum gets cluttered as if two pages were typeset one over the other. (TeXLive 2012 and xdvi). Thanks! – n.r. Dec 12 '12 at 02:25
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    @NicolaiRostov: ...Mmmm, xdvi. What about compiling with pdflatex? – Werner Dec 12 '12 at 02:32
  • @Werner: Output from pdflatex is fine: 200in of text. Thanks! So should I abandon the dvi format? – n.r. Dec 12 '12 at 02:35
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    @NicolaiRostov: Like it's toast that's been left on the counter for two weeks, yes. There's not much motivation for keeping it in that format, in my opinion. – Werner Dec 12 '12 at 02:36

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