how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

[Combs, Richard]

Jakob Fix wrote:
 
> So this means that Frame doesn't consider it an empty page and doesn't
> delete it.  Which makes perfect sense.
> 
> Also, I just ran Miramo again to regenerate the FrameMaker files and
> it turns out that I was wrong, and the initial documents are already
> two-page documents with the second page containing simply an empty
> paragraph. Mea culpa!
> 
> Which leads me to the question: How can I get rid of the empty
> paragraph, and thence the second page?  Any tools, plugins, scripts?

It could be done easily with FrameScript. In fact, one of the sample
scripts I got with FS, DeleteEmptyParagraphs.fsl, does the job at the
doc level, and it wouldn't be hard to add a wrapper that made it work
for all docs in a book. 

But an even better approach, IMO, would be to prevent your Miramo
process from creating these empty pgfs in the first place. :-)


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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