Too much text?

Unity Engine
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I’m working on a project that uses blocks of text up to 3500 words. Unfortunately I just received this error message.

Optimized GUI Block text buffer too large. Not appending further text.
UnityEditor.DockArea:OnGUI()

I tried breaking up my text in to smaller chucks but I’m still getting the error message.

Here’s the basic script.

function OnGUI () {
	GUI.skin = mySkin;
	
	// Begin the ScrollView
	scrollPosition = GUI.BeginScrollView (Rect (50, 60, Screen.width-100, Screen.height-130), scrollPosition, Rect (0, 0,  Screen.width-120, CompleteLength));

	// Story
	GUI.Label (Rect (0, 0, Screen.width-120, StoryLength), StoryText);
	
	// Story Cont
	GUI.Label (Rect (0, StoryLength + 50, Screen.width-120, StoryLength1), StoryText1);
	
	// Story Cont
	GUI.Label (Rect (0, StoryLength + StoryLength1 + 100, Screen.width-120, StoryLength2), StoryText2);	
	
	//Icon
	GUI.Label (Rect (Screen.width/2-92, StoryLength + StoryLength1 + StoryLength2 + StoryIconSpread, 64, 64), BikoIconBlack);
	
	//Author Bio
	GUI.Label (Rect (0, StoryLength + StoryLength1 + StoryLength2 + StoryBioSpread, Screen.width-120, BioLength), AuthorBio);

	// End the ScrollView
	GUI.EndScrollView();
	
	//Title text
	GUI.Label (Rect (50 , 10, 500, 50), StoryTitle, customGuiStyle);
	
	//Home
	if (GUI.Button (Rect (Screen.width/2-50,Screen.height - 100, 128, 128), MapIcon)) {
		Application.LoadLevel ("MainMenu");
	}
}

Any suggestions or workarounds?

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I did some digging and found this post.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/30874-Apparent-String-Length-Limit?highlight=GUI.Label+text+limit

Apparently my character count is higher than the 16,382 limit. Given that I am using a ScrollView to display all of the text in one spot, is there any way to get around the limit without shortening the text? Splitting the text to 2 pages when using ScrollView seems a bit cruel to my users.

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