Render (export) entire document as image

Question

Background

Using LyX to create a document and xetex to leverage a TrueType font. The entire text is within a minipage. Ultimately, I'm trying to produce the following output (no white page background, single image, captured from OpenOffice):

Problem - Update #1

Adding tolerance and emergencystretch produces:

Preamble

The document preamble:

\usepackage{fontspec}% provides font selecting commands
\usepackage{xunicode}% provides unicode character macros
\usepackage{xltxtra} % provides some fixes/extras
\setmainfont{Franklin Gothic Book}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[margin=0.2in]{geometry}

\setlength{\textwidth}{6cm}
\tolerance=1
\emergencystretch=\maxdimen

Idea - Update #2

The program pdfcrop can be used to remove all the extra whitespace in the margins.

Related Links - Update #3

• http://rene.bz/convert-multi-page-pdf-single-image/
• http://linuxers.org/quick-tips/convert-pdf-file-single-image-using-imagemagick

Question

How can you render a document as a single image (or as one very, very long page), ignoring any pagination, in a justified (newspaper-style) column format?

Thank you!

Answer 1

I really can't understand why you don't want hyphenation. Setting \tolerance=1 is quite dubious. Remove HyphenChar=None if you want to switch hyphenation on.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperheight=\maxdimen,paperwidth=6.2cm,margin=0.1cm}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,HyphenChar=None]{Franklin Gothic Book}

\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}

\usepackage{kantlipsum} % mock text

\begin{document}
\emergencystretch=\maxdimen

\kant

\end{document}