RE: FrameMaker not deleting empty pages on save

["Debbi Fortney" <debbi.fortney@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or you could accomplish the same thing by setting the file to Delete
Empty Pages, and setting the file that follows to start on a right page,
which will force FrameMaker to add a page at the end of first file,
thereby making the page count even. The page that is added will use the
Left master page.

Debbi Fortney
Technical Trainer/Consultant
Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker & Photoshop
Bothell, WA 98011
425-482-2617
debbi.fortney@verizon.net


Dick Gaskill replied to Hedley Finger:

> The problem is that the "make page count even" command does 
> ONLY that.  It does not check to see if any pages are empty 
> and does not delete them.
> 
> If you create a new FM file, hit the Enter key 21 times, then 
> modify the tag to include a page break (update all), you will 
> get 21 pages.  Set the pagination to Make Page Count Even and 
> then save.  FM counts the pages and then adds a blank page to 
> make the page count 22 (even).
> 
> But - there is a workaround.  Note that in the same drop-down 
> list there is a choice to Delete Empty Pages.  Set that one, 
> then do a Save All Files in Book, then set Make Page Count 
> Even, and save all the files again.  Kinda kludgy, but it works.
> 
> NOTE - Frame considers a blank page with a single para mark 
> on it NOT an "empty" page.  The Delete Empty Pages command 
> works only on pages that have nothing at all on the body page.
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Hedley Finger wrote:

> 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.
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