White Space in PDFs - Fix in FrameMaker?

[2clue]

Is there a way to create PDF output from a book such that there is no gap (whitespace) between framemaker files. For example, if two files in the book contain only a few lines of text, could the pdf not start the second file on a new page.

[Van Kurtz]

I have not tried this.

In the book file, select the second file, right-click, and select Pagination. In the Pagination dialog, set 1st Page Side to Next Available and set Before Saving & Printing to Delete Empty Pages or possibly Don't Change Page Count.

You may want to do this for all files after the first to make it work throughout your book.

Van

[2clue]

Van,

Thanks for the suggestion! but this actually added blank pages to the pdf. Let me try to better explain my question.

When generating a PDF from a FrameMaker book, the content of every file starts at the top of a page in the PDF file. When one file ends at the middle of a page, is it possible to get the content of the next file to start IMMEDIATELY (the next line on the same page) after the end of the the last line?

I am temporarily trying to use a book in unstructured FrameMaker 10 to handle a bunch of files each of which contain only small amounts of information (topics).

2clue

[Bob_Niland]

> ... handle a bunch of files each of which contain only small amounts of information (topics).

Frame can't overlap pages from separate files.

What it can do, however, is import the text from those files into a single document (or single book file) via Text Insets.

You can import as plain text or formatted, preserving or overriding the formatting. Limitations include auto-numbered content (that relies on the import file's current counter values), and possibly cross-references.

[Wiedenmaier]

I hope I understood what you want.

You want to move the content of second document, to the first one, because the first one has enough place for that?

This isn't possible, because you creat a new document, and this means always start on a new page.

The only thing you can do, ist referencing the second document as an text inset in the first document.

As you talk aobue small amounts of information, which are stored in documents, perhaps this was the intension of these documents?

Create new documents which referencing content by text insets? I don't now.

Hope this helps

Markus