[Tex/LaTex] Preventing minipage from creating a blank page

minipage

So I've got a document that is leading off with a minipage. From what I understand, the minipage environment tries to fit the box it creates on the current page, and if it is unable to do so, it moves itself to the top of the next page. The document that I have is currently doing that, because the minipage is slightly larger than the page itself. As such, it moves itself to the next page, despite there being nothing before it on the page. Is there a way to get it to not flee away like this?

Here is a MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, portrait, margin=0.75in]{geometry}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{5 in}
\lipsum[10-25]
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

Using this generates a two page pdf. The first is blank, the second contains the lorem ipsum text flowing longer than the page itself. If you change the amount of text used so that it fits on one page, then it magically doesn't create the blank page either.

Best Answer

Based on the fact that you want to force the content to remain on the current page, yet it is just too tall to fit, you can \smash it (removing any vertical height) and then force a jump to the following page (if needed for additional content):

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[a4paper, portrait, margin = 0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\pagenumbering{gobble}

\begin{document}

\smash{% Your over-sized minipage...
  \begin{minipage}[t]{5in}
    \lipsum[10-25]
  \end{minipage}%
}

\clearpage

abc % Page 2 content

\end{document}
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