[XeTeX] HELP! ** ERROR ** Page number 65536l too large!

[Michael Joyner]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Michael Joyner <michael at newsrx.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Arno Trautmann <Arno.Trautmann at gmx.de>wrote:
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>> Michael Joyner wrote:
>>
>>> HELP!
>>>
>>> I am getting this on a super-large tex file:
>>>
>>> ** ERROR ** Page number 65536l too large!
>>>
>>> I tried googling it, but did not find any references to this error. :(
>>>
>>
>> Maybe if you try to also report what you did, we could have a chance to
>> help you …
>>
>
> I have a large tex file: 'x.pdf'
>
> I am thinking it might be PDF related, as I have PDF contents, etc, being
> created, so I am trying at the moment: xelatex -interaction=batchmode
> -no-pdf x.tex
>
>
The xdv file was successfully written:


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xelatex summary report
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Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 19483 strings out of 494146
 322607 string characters out of 3152167
 534179 words of memory out of 3000000
 22463 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
 8984 words of font info for 66 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
 1018 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 38i,12n,84p,23992b,414s stack positions out of
5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s

Output written on x.xdv (352956 pages, 1612102060 bytes).


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resulting files and sizes
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$ ls -lh
total 6.4G
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  22M Sep 30 10:18 x.aux
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache    0 Sep 30 09:16 x.idx
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  33M Sep 30 10:19 x.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1.6K Sep 30 10:19 x.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 858M Sep 30 09:16 x.tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  922 Sep 30 10:19 x.toc
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 5.6G Sep 30 10:19 x.xdv
bash-3.2$

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location of xdvipdfmx
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which xdvipdfmx
/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/xdvipdfmx

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results of xdvipdfmx
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bash-3.2$ xdvipdfmx x.xdv
Found 82 where post_post opcode should be

** ERROR ** Something is wrong. Are you sure this is a DVI file?

Output file removed.

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initial contents x.xdv
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bash-3.2$ strings x.xdv | head -n 5
 XeTeX output 2011.09.30:0916
+pdf:pagesize width 433.62pt height 650.43pt
qpdf:docinfo<</Title()/Subject()/Creator(LaTeX with hyperref
package)/Author()/Producer(XeTeX 0.9997)/Keywords()>>
3pdf:dest (page.i) [@thispage /XYZ @xpos @ypos null]
color push gray 0
bash-3.2$




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>> cheers
>> Arno
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