Automatically inserting "blank page" text

[Alan Litchfield]

Schlomo

Like it. :)

Does that affect the automatic deletion of excess pages?

Cheers
Alan

On 18/03/2008, at 7:45 AM, Shlomo Perets wrote:

> Fei Min,
>
> You 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.
>
> You may try using FrameMaker's Apply Master Pages function (7.0 or  
> later)
> for this purpose, as follows:
> - create a new master page, named LeftRegular (or similarly), that  
> will
> control the layout of the standard Left pages
> -- modify your standard Left master page so that it become the  
> special 
> blank page ("intentionally left blank" or so)
> -- in the mapping table controlling the assignment of master pages  
> based on 
> element names or paragraph tags, specify that "Body" paragraphs (and/ 
> or any
> other elements which is encountered on regular body pages) on left- 
> hand
> pages assign the LeftRegular master page
>
> As you use the Apply Master Pages function (which may be document- or
> book-wide), the reserved "Left" master page -- not applied by any  
> other
> paragraph -- will then be the "blank" page.
>
> When switching to the Apply Master Pages approach to control  
> application of
> custom master pages, all assignments should be controlled through the
> mapping table (as manually assigned master pages are reset); test the
> master page assignments you need in a complex document, including
> multi-page tables (if this applies to your documents).
>
>
>
> Shlomo Perets
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