And the answer is... Thanks to some "super-sleuthing" by Rick Quatro the causes have been found. One document had a stray, empty text box that was preventing the deletion of the extra pages.
The other included an inset with a table. In FrameMaker 11 it splits across 2 pages (a header row and 2 body rows flow to the second page), but in the PDF it stays all on one page which affects the pagination of the remaining pages in the document so another blank page results, apparently after "extra pages" have been deleted. I'll have to follow up with Adobe on this one, I guess. Thanks to all of you for your willingness to help. Judy Bragg Technical Writer HYPACK, Inc. 860-635-1500 On 1/31/2013 10:14 AM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Judy Bragg wrote: > >> In each case, if I change the conditional settings to "Show All" and set the >> pagination settings to "Next Available [Page]" and "Delete Empty Pages", I >> don't have the blank pages at the end. When I change the conditional >> settings >> to show only the conditions appropriate to the PDF, I get the blank pages in >> the FM as well as the PDF. I can see the pilcrow marking the end of the >> document so I don't know what FM thinks is beyond that point. > Did you save after changing the condition settings? If that doesn't help, try > manually deleting the empty pages (Special > Delete Pages). Is it possible > that there's some unobvious conditionalized object, as Anita suggested? > > Are you sure your pagination and start on settings aren't the culprit? IIRC, > you said chapter titles are set to start on a new page -- are you sure it's > not start on right page or start on left page? Look critically at the files > with the "blank" pages -- and at the files that follow them. More often than > not, blank pages are the result of some conflict in the pagination / start on > / keep with settings. > > > Richard G. Combs > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-903-6372 > ------ > > > > > > > >
