Automatically inserting "blank page" text

[Stuart Rogers]

FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com wrote:
> I have some unstructured manuals and if there is a blank page at the end 
> of a chapter (because we want all the chapters to begin on a right-hand 
> page), we put "This page left blank for printing purposes." Right now I'm 
> manually deciding when the text should appear (meaning I have to look for 
> a blank page and put the right paragraph on it). Is there any way of 
> automating this so that FrameMaker detects when the last page of a file 
> has no content (other than a header and footer) and either uses a 
> different master page or a particular paragraph type?
> 
> I'm using FrameMaker 7.2 on Windows XP.

I don't know how to automate that.  Myself, I insert a small version of 
the company logo as an end-of-chapter indicator, and just avoid the 
whole issue.  Have you considered that approach?


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