RE: FrameMaker not deleting empty pages on save

["Kevin McGuire" <kevinm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I had the same problem with our system some weeks ago (fm6 on Solaris UNIX).
I also discoved that if you delete the blank pages you lose text. I just
saved, closed and reopened the document and it healed.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
>Of hedley_finger@myob.com.au
>Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2002 11:40 AM
>To: framers@omsys.com; framers@frameusers.com
>Subject: FrameMaker not deleting empty pages on save
>
>
>
>All:
>
>This is a really baffling one.  My colleague has a book with about 24
>chapters and appendices in toto.  This book contains a large number of
>conditions so we can produce custom user guides for various products and
>markets.  We show all the conditions when maintaining the content, then
>show only the selected conditions for the current deliverable.  Each
>component file has a large number of blank Left and Right pages at the end
>after only the selected conditions are exposed.
>
>The Before Saving & Printing drop-list is set to Make Page Count Even in
>the Pagination dialogue.  But when we save or print, FrameMaker does not
>delete the unwanted blank pages.  Neither does it delete them when we
>update the book file.  In fact it is behaving as though the last page of
>each component has had a custom master page applied to it.  Applying the
>appropriate Left or Rignt master to these last pages has no effect.
>
>Has anybody else experienced this problem?  What was the solution?  My
>colleague is not looking forward to deleting the blank pages manually every
>time he wants to regenerate the index and contents.
>
>[Windows 2000, FrameMaker 6.0p405, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.03,
>Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31u33, WebWorks Publisher 7.0, IXgen 5.5.h, HTML
>Help Workshop 4.74 build 8702.0, HTML Help 1.31]
>
>Regards,
>Hedley
>
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>Hedley Finger
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