What causes blank pages

Setting pagination to Make Page Count Even can add a blank page, when

there is only an odd number of pages of text. Probably the most common

reason people post with confusion about blank pages, though, is when

they have set a chapter to Delete Empty Pages and FrameMaker keeps

adding blank pages to the end of it. It's because that chapter ends on,

say, a right page and the next chapter is set to start on a right page.

So FrameMaker has to add a blank page to the previous chapter to make it

happen. The fix is then in the following file, not the current one,

where the user is looking to change settings.

Mike Wickham

Hi RBKearnsJr:

I'll add that it can also be:

1. pagination settings at the book level,
2. reformatting and making the text smaller, or
3. editing and having less content.

In the latter two examples, saving or printing will delete the blank pages at the end, but there are reasons they won't go away—like the use of custom masters, changing document property defaults and the aforementioned pagination settings.

~Barb