viewing long pages, evince seems to choke on simple test file

[Mike Marchywka]

I was playing around with long pages in xdvik and thought I would return 
to things known to work. I made a simple test file, 
cat pagesize.tex | uniq -c
      1 
      1 \newcommand{\mjms}[1]{ }
      1 %\input{mikemailxxx.tex}
      1 %\documentclass[aps,secnumarabic,balancelastpage,amsmath,amssymb,nofootinbib]{revtex4-2}
      1 \documentclass{article}
      1 %\usepackage[a4paper, total={10in, 80in}]{geometry}
      1 %\usepackage[paperheight=80in,height=78in]{geometry}
      1 \usepackage[paperheight=80in,height=120in]{geometry}
      1 
      1 \begin{document}
      1 
      1 %\input{dum_clip.txt}
   1001 \section{test}
      1 
      1 \end{document}


and ran 


 2181  pdflatex --output-format=pdf pagesize.tex 
 2183  pdflatex --output-format=dvi pagesize.tex 
 2193  history | grep pdflatex

to generate pdf and dvi outputs for viewing in evince. 
Neither seemed right although they were more or less similar 
with the first page blank and the second starting
around section 40 test and ending at 318 in dvi
and 249 in the pdf file. The dvi output
starts like as show below ( I modified dviasm to output
a hex op code address ). It does look like page 1 is 
more or less blank but then page 2 is trying to 
start with "1 test." Is there something simple wrong
with my latex source? I have to admit I did not look 
too closely as I had hoped to avoid problems
but thought I may have hit an overlfow somewhere.
If there is some simple thing to change the scale,
the numbers in the preamble look scary for integer math,
that may be all I need to know. 


Thanks.    


./mydviasm.txt pagesize.dvi |  more
[preamble]
id: 2
numerator: 25400000
denominator: 473628672
magnification: 1000
comment: ' TeX output 2019.09.07:1704'

[postamble]
maxv: 7473.810028pt
maxh: 449.879822pt
maxs: 4
pages: 2

[font definitions]
fntdef: cmr10 at 10pt
fntdef: cmbx12 (12pt)  at 14.399994pt

[page 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
57 xxx: 'papersize=614.295pt,5781.59999pt'
79 down: 7473.810028pt
7e push:
7f   down: -8727.399994pt
84   down: 8697.399994pt
89   down: 30pt
8d   push:
8e     right: 232.377502pt
a8     fnt: cmr10 at 10pt
a9     set: '1'
aa   pop:
ab pop:

[page 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
da down: 7473.810028pt
df push:
e0   down: -8727.399994pt
e5   down: 8697.399994pt
ea   push:
eb     down: -8662.399994pt
f0     push:
f1       push:
f2         right: 19.875198pt
10c         fnt: cmbx12 (12pt) at 14.399994pt
10d         set: '1'
10e       pop:
10f       right: 44.175171pt
113       set: 'test'
117     pop:
    y: 27.902756pt
11c     push:
11d       push:
11e         right: 19.875198pt
122         set: '2'
123       pop:
124       right: 44.175171pt
128       set: 'test'
12c     pop:
12d     y0:
12e     push:
12f       push:
130         right: 19.875198pt
134         set: '3'
135       pop:
136       right: 44.175171pt
13a       set: 'test'
13e     pop:
13f     y0:
140     push:
141       push:
142         right: 19.875198pt
146         set: '4'
147       pop:
148       right: 44.175171pt
14c       set: 'test'
150     pop:
151     y0:
152     push:
153       push:
154         right: 19.875198pt
158         set: '5'
159       pop:
15a       right: 44.175171pt
15e       set: 'test'
162     pop:
163     y0:
164     push:
165       push:
166         right: 19.875198pt
16a         set: '6'
16b       pop:
16c       right: 44.175171pt
170       set: 'test'
174     pop:
175     y0:
176     push:
177       push:
178         right: 19.875198pt
17c         set: '7'
17d       pop:
17e       right: 44.175171pt
182       set: 'test'
186     pop:
187     y0:
188     push:
189       push:
18a         right: 19.875198pt
18e         set: '8'
18f       pop:
190       right: 44.175171pt
194       set: 'test'
198     pop:
199     y0:
--More--




Thanks.

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