Is there a way to make Google Docs save a document as a PDF but without splitting it into multiple pages? I understand that sticking to a certain page size is important for printing, but for the PDF I'm making it's not necessary and even distracting to have multiple pages. I can't simply use a larger standard page size such as Tabloid, as the amount of content would still result in multiple pages. [2024-01] Google Docs now includes pageless mode however that doesn't seem to carry over to the PDF. How can I convert a pageless Google document to a single page/pageless PDF?
7,027 5 5 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges asked Apr 14, 2016 at 7:05 318 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 12 12 bronze badgesHere's my workaround:
By default the page size is 'One long page'. Can change it under More options.
If your Google doc contains images then when exporting to HTML you'll get a zip file. You can't upload a zip file to convert it to PDF, only the HTML file so it does't work great in that case.
Disclosure: I'm a Sejda developer.
3,342 13 13 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges answered Dec 13, 2017 at 13:49 135 3 3 bronze badgesGoogle Docs conversion is usually more permissive than it's own menu's would suggest. Have Libre-Office spit out 3m (its' max) tall pages and convert. MS Word will not go beyond 22 inches. Here is the converted result template. Maybe if you tweak the internal structure of the ODT file (unzip the odt, edit the style.xml, edit pagesize, rezip) you might be able to stretch this even further.
As you mentioned and probably understand PDF is a Printer Definition file. This is more a PDF question (or a word processor question) than a Google Docs question. The disclaimers I would like to add. No wordprocessor should allow for what you are asking. PDF's are page based. Continuous scrolling (no on-screen pagebreaks) is and should be a viewer setting. But hey, because you shouldn't doesn't mean you couldn't. Right? Maybe you can change paper sizes in a PDF editor, like Acrobat.
