How to detect disconnected pages

[ars999]

Hi all,

I want to delete all empty pages of the document. When there are empty disconnected pages added I can't detect them in order to delete. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks in advance

[frameexpert]

If you view your text symbols (View > Text Symbols), you can look for end-of-flow symbols on each page. A page that is not the last that has an end-of-flow symbol is disconnected. If I get some time today, I will post some code to do it programmatically.

[ars999]

Hi. I think this is a good way to detect the disconnected pages. Can you provide some information how can it be implemented programmatically?

[frameexpert]

I would do something like this:

#target framemaker

main ();

function main () {

    var doc, mainFlow, page, textFrame;

    doc = app.ActiveDoc;
    if (doc.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        // Get the document's main flow.
        mainFlow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;
        // Loop through each page in the document.
        page = doc.FirstBodyPageInDoc;
        while (page.ObjectValid () === 1) {
            // Get the A flow text frame on the page.
            textFrame = getTextFrame (page, "A");
            if (textFrame) {
                // See if the text frame's flow is the main flow.
                if (textFrame.Flow.id !== mainFlow.id) {
                    // If not, you have a disconnected pageg.
                    $.writeln ("Disconnected page: " + page.PageNumString);
                }
            }
            page = page.PageNext;
        }
    }
}

function getTextFrame (page, flow) {
    
    var frame, graphic;
    
    frame = page.PageFrame;
    graphic = frame.FirstGraphicInFrame;
    while (graphic.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        if (graphic.constructor.name === "TextFrame") {
            if (graphic.Flow.Name === flow) {
                return graphic;
            }
        }
        graphic = graphic.NextGraphicInFrame;
    }
}

[K.Daube]

Moved to own thread

[frameexpert]

Another way to do it manually: Click in the document's main flow and Edit > Select All. Edit > Cut the content to the clipboard. Delete all pages from the document except the first. Put your cursor in the first page and Edit > Paste.

[Barb Binder]

Hi @ars999:

One additional idea: 

1. Click inside the text
2. Edit > Select all in Flow
3. Zoom out to 25%
4. The pages that don't have text selected are the disconnected pages. If there is content on those pages, you can cut/paste it back into the main flow. Once that is completed, repeat the process and then delete the disconnected pages. 

~Barb 

[frameexpert]

Beautifully illustrated!

[Bob_Niland]

re: I want to delete all empty pages of the document.

Keep in mind that not all empty pages are disconnected pages.

In a duplex (double-sided) document, any Paragraph Format (or override) that starts at Top of [L|R] Page can result in a blank page being left behind. Separate Chapter files can result in a blank at end of prior. There is no way to delete these meta-blank pages other than using single sided layout, or implementing some TPILB (ThisPageIntentionallyLeftBlank) scheme, so that no meta-blanks are actually blank.

[CaptLauren]

Can you use the "Delete Empty Pages" configuration?

Format > Page Layout. In the Pagination dialog box, under "Before Saving and Printing", select "Delete Empty Pages".