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GNU Projects sorted by number of pages in their PDF manuals (Provided that a PDF manual exists and it's hosted online)
GNU project Number of pages in manual PDF source
Emacs Lisp 1376 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/elisp.pdf
GNU C Library 1239 https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/pdf/libc.pdf
GCC 1093 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.2.0/gcc.pdf
Guile 972 https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.pdf
GDB 940 https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.pdf
GNUlib 922 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.pdf
GnuCOBOL 754 https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobpg-a4.pdf?format=raw
GNU Scientific Library 742 https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/latex/gsl-ref.pdf
Emacs 695 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/emacs.pdf
Guix 688 https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.pdf
Gawk 599 https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.pdf
GNU Assembler 452 https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.41/as.pdf
Autoconf 403 https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf.pdf
Gcal 330 https://www.gnu.org/software/gcal/manual/gcal.pdf
LibreDWG 321 https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/manual/LibreDWG.pdf
Groff 309 https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.pdf
Coreutils 307 https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.pdf
Liquid War 6 306 https://www.gnu.org/software/liquidwar6/manual/liquidwar6.pdf
Gettext 301 https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.pdf
PSPP 293 https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.pdf
GnuCash 278 https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual.pdf
Tar 262 https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.pdf
Bison 252 https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/bison.pdf
GnuPG Privacy Guard 242 https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf
Radius 242 https://www.gnu.org/software/radius/manual/radius.pdf
Gprolog 240 http://www.gprolog.org/manual/gprolog.pdf
AutoGen 232 https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/manual/autogen.pdf
Make 229 https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.pdf
Bash 196 https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.pdf
Automake 188 https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.pdf
Hyperbole 177 https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.pdf
M4 162 https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.pdf
GNU Linker 158 https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.41/ld.pdf
GRUB 152 https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.pdf
GMP 152 https://gmplib.org/gmp-man-6.2.1.pdf
AUCTeX 144 https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex.pdf
Smalltalk 138 https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/gst.pdf
Screen 130 https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.pdf
Guile-ncurses 130 https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-ncurses/manual/guile-ncurses.pdf
Libtool 128 https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.pdf
Findutils 118 https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/find.pdf
Parallel 112 https://zenodo.org/record/1146014/files/GNU_Parallel_2018.pdf
GNU Binary Utilities (binutils) 111 https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.41/binutils.pdf
MIX Development Kit 110 https://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/manual/mdk.pdf
Libunistring 110 https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/manual/libunistring.pdf
Ccd2cue 106 https://www.gnu.org/software/ccd2cue/manual/ccd2cue.pdf
Serveez 104 https://www.gnu.org/software/serveez/manual/serveez.pdf
Diffutils 104 https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/diffutils.pdf
Anubis 96 https://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/manual/anubis.pdf
Java Training Wheels 93 https://www.gnu.org/software/jtw/manual/jtw.pdf
Inetutils 93 https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.pdf
Gsasl 93 https://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/manual/gsasl.pdf
XBoard 92 https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/manual/xboard.pdf
GNU dbm 89 https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/manual/gdbm.pdf
Archimedes 89 https://www.gnu.org/software/archimedes/manual/archimedes.pdf
DejaGnu 87 https://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/dejagnu.pdf
The C Preprocessor (GCC) 86 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.2.0/cpp.pdf
Sed 85 https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.pdf
Libmicrohttpd 85 https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/manual/libmicrohttpd.pdf
Backgammon 81 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/manual/gnubg.pdf
Libidn 80 https://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/manual/libidn.pdf
Wget 76 https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.pdf
MPFR 76 https://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-4.2.1/mpfr.pdf
Emacs-muse 75 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs-muse/manual/muse.pdf
Artanis 74 https://www.gnu.org/software/artanis/manual/artanis.pdf
Remotecontrol 73 https://www.gnu.org/software/remotecontrol/manual/remotecontrol.pdf
GNU Interactive Tools 69 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuit/manual/gnuit.pdf
Guile-SDL 62 https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-sdl/manual/guile-sdl.pdf
Units 61 https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.pdf
Cflow 60 https://www.gnu.org/software/cflow/manual/cflow.pdf
Guile-rpc 52 https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-rpc/manual/guile-rpc.pdf
C-graph 50 https://www.gnu.org/software/c-graph/manual/c-graph.pdf
Generic Security Service 46 https://www.gnu.org/software/gss/manual/gss.pdf
RCS 43 https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/manual/rcs.pdf
Grep 43 https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.pdf
Proxyknife 41 https://www.gnu.org/software/proxyknife/manual/proxyknife.pdf
Stow 40 https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.pdf
Sqltutor 40 https://www.gnu.org/software/sqltutor/manual/sqltutor.pdf
Indent 40 https://www.gnu.org/software/indent/manual/indent.pdf
Combine 40 https://www.gnu.org/software/combine/manual/combine.pdf
MPC 38 https://www.multiprecision.org/downloads/mpc-1.3.1.pdf
Gv 38 https://www.gnu.org/software/gv/manual/gv.pdf
Sharutils 37 https://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/manual/sharutils.pdf
Lightning 37 https://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/manual/lightning.pdf
Gperf 37 https://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/gperf.pdf
Chess 37 https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/gnuchess.pdf
Libtasn1 36 https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/libtasn1.pdf
Rottlog 35 https://www.gnu.org/software/rottlog/manual/rottlog.pdf
Mes 33 https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/manual/mes.pdf
Libextractor 33 https://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/manual/libextractor.pdf
Teseq 32 https://www.gnu.org/software/teseq/manual/teseq.pdf
8sync 32 https://www.gnu.org/software/8sync/manual/8sync.pdf
GNU Source Release Collection 30 https://www.gnu.org/software/gsrc/manual/gsrc.pdf
Epsilon 30 https://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon/manual/epsilon.pdf
Librejs 29 https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/manual/librejs.pdf
Gzip 29 https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.pdf
Complexity 28 https://www.gnu.org/software/complexity/manual/complexity.pdf
Parted 27 https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.pdf
Libdbh 27 https://www.gnu.org/software/libdbh/manual/Libdbh.pdf
Idutils 25 https://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/manual/idutils.pdf
Rpge 23 https://www.gnu.org/software/rpge/rpge.pdf
Websocket4j 21 https://www.gnu.org/software/websocket4j/manual/websocket4j.pdf
Wdiff 21 https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/manual/wdiff.pdf
Alive 19 https://www.gnu.org/software/alive/manual/alive.pdf
Vc-dwim 18 https://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/manual/vc-dwim.pdf
Cpio 18 https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual/cpio.pdf
Hello 17 https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/hello.pdf
GNUbik 16 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubik/manual/gnubik.pdf
OrgaDoc 15 https://www.gnu.org/software/orgadoc/manual/orgadoc.pdf
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sethkush commented May 2, 2023

The GNU scientific library manual is 742 pages.

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The GNU scientific library manual is 742 pages.

Updated, thanks

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rurban commented May 2, 2023

The GNU libredwg pdf manual has 319 pages, the reference manual about 1800.
https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/

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The GNU libredwg pdf manual has 319 pages, the reference manual about 1800. https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/

Thanks. Added libredwg. I couldn't find the reference manual in PDF online, so unfortunately I can't add it.

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rurban commented May 2, 2023

The GNU libredwg pdf manual has 319 pages, the reference manual about 1800. https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/

Thanks. Added libredwg. I couldn't find the reference manual in PDF online, so unfortunately I can't add it.

The doxygen generated refman only exists as HTML with javascript. No PDF.

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