[tex4ht] What would it take to fix tex4ht limitation of 65536 DVI pages?

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

On 2/9/2025 5:16 AM, Michal Hoftich wrote:
> 
> This is the limit of TeX, we cannot change it from the inside of TeX4ht.
> But you can use larger page sizes to work around this issue. Like paper
> height of 575 cm:
> 
> \usepackage[paperwidth=100cm, paperheight=575cm]{geometry}
> 
> This is the maximal size before I get dimension too large error.
> 
> I hope this workaround doesn' cause other issues,
> 
> Best,
> Michal
> 

Update:

Thanks to Michal suggestion, the above trick worked!

I was able to build the same page now, and got
no Fatal error about total_pages>=65536

So I will use the above from now on for tex4ht mode.

Only thing I had to change also is my images sizes. As now
when using something like

    \includegraphics[width=0.7\texwidth]{image}

in HTML the image is way too large, since it was all based
before on letter size.  But this is easy to fix. May be
in tex4ht mode, I will use inches for width and have
to figure a good value to use. I have not seen any
other issue so far.

So for now, the main problem is resolved, at least for this web page.
I will try this trick on a much larger page and see if it will also
build it.

Thanks again for Michal help.


--Nasser