RE: Master Page/Delete File issues with PDFs created with scripts

["Ridder, Fred" <fred.ridder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Becky Raymond wrote (in small part):

>FrameMaker doesn't automatically delete empty pages 
>when custom master pages are used even though 
>Delete Empty Pages is on (this appears to be a feature, 
>but I don't get it -- to me, blank is blank regardless of 
>the master page used)

The reason you "don't get it" is that there is a difference
between "blank" and "empty". A page that contains an 
empty paragraph is certainly blank, but it is *not* empty
because at some point you typed a paragraph on it. 
The problem you're up against is that the Master Page 
Usage property is part of the content of a specific page 
even though it doesn't produce any visible output, which 
means that the page is *not* empty even though it 
may be blank. The Master Page Usage property is 
something you had to deliberately apply at some point,
and the designers of FrameMaker are appropriately 
reluctant to delete anything that the author specifically 
added to a document.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred.ridder@intel.com)
Staff Information Services Analyst
Intel Corporation
Network Processing Group
Parsippany, NJ


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