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

[Martin Schröder]

2011/9/29 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>:
> Clearly Knuth didn't think there was any need for such large numbers
> of pages in a single file.

See TeX error #913:
* 28 December 1990
R913. Avoid range check when there are 65536 or more pages (Eberhard Mattes).

> It's possible (though I haven't tried) that pdftex in PDF output
> mode would be able to generate more pages, as this avoids the DVI
> path altogether.

pdfTeX and luaTeX shouldn't have any problems up to some millions of
pages; PDF is limited to <8m pages (number of indirect objects) with
32 bit readers.

Best
   Martin