paper-sizepdf
I'd like to emulate HTML's infinite page height using LaTeX/XeTeX, i.e. have the PDF pages grow higher until a manual \newpage is issued.
This could be emulated by setting a very large page height and using pdfcrop on the output (or just setting the page height manually), but I'd like a pure TeX variant and if possible support for footnotes etc at the bottom of the cropped page.
The correct parameters to set are \pdfpageheight and \pdfpagewidth:
\pdfpageheight=11in
\pdfpagewidth=8.5in
However, this won't work in the "latex+dvips+ps2pdf" cycle. A code for both cases is
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
\pdfpageheight=11in
\pdfpagewidth=8.5in
\else
\special{papersize=11in,8.5in}
\fi
The geometry way is better:
\usepackage[pass,letterpaper]{geometry}
or, if one wants a different paper size, (I'll use Letter paper sizes as example)
\usepackage[pass,paperwidth=8.5in,paperheight=11in]{geometry}
With the pass option, geometry won't change the class parameters for pagination, as it would do without it.
As far as I know, BakomaTeX doesn't use pdflatex, so the
\usepackage[pass,letterpaper]{geometry}
should be the one to follow.
I would recommend you use the varwidth package which is similar to the minipage environment, but sets its width to match the narrower natural width based on the content.
This can be used either with the standalone package, or you can directly use the preview package to get (note that the border shown here is from my image capturing):
Here is the MWE using the standalone class:
\documentclass[tightpage]{standalone}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\begin{document}
\begin{varwidth}{\linewidth}
\section{One document to display}
How to produce an output without any margin.
\par\noindent
$ E = m c^2 $ but it seems that we can have $ v > c $.
\end{varwidth}
and using the preview package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\begin{document}
\begin{preview}
\begin{varwidth}{\linewidth}
\section{One document to display}
How to produce an output without any margin.
\par\noindent
$ E = m c^2 $ but it seems that we can have $ v > c $.
\end{varwidth}
\end{preview}
\end{document}
I suspect that standalone class internally uses the preview package to do something like this, so probably not much difference in this case, but might be useful if you needed to use a different class.
If this is something you are going to do often it is worthwhile automating this solution by using \AtBeginDocument and \AtEndDocument in the preamble to automate this. Here is the same code with this automation in the preamble and using the book class:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\AtBeginDocument{\begin{preview}\begin{varwidth}{\linewidth}}
\AtEndDocument{\end{varwidth}\end{preview}}
\begin{document}
\section{One document to display}
How to produce an output without any margin.
\par\noindent
$ E = m c^2 $ but it seems that we can have $ v > c $.
\end{document}
Best Answer
You could use the
previewpackage for this. It's basically the "pure (La)TeX variant ofpdfcrop" you are looking for. You need to set the text height to\maxdimene.g. usinggeometryand wrap every page in\begin{preview}...\end{preview}. To do this simply have a\begin{preview}after\begin{document}, a\end{preview}before\end{document}and define a\newpagevariant as\end{preview}\begin{preview}. You will loose some of the border which can be readded using the\PreviewBordermacro. However, AFAIK this doesn't support header and footer.Here now some example code. Apparently
previewalready takes care to suppress automatic page breaks and the modification of the text height is not required.