Why does a document filtered by attribute show blank pages?

Report · Apr 14, 2009

Unless someone can offer an explanation or a fix, this seems like another reason not to use filtering by attribute.

I have an 8 page document, which when filtered by attribute has content on only two pages. I have set the document to have an even number of pages. When I save the filtered document, the blank pages are not deleted, as they are with conditional text. If I delete the blank pages, save the file, and open it again, the six blank pages reappear. Even if I do not reopen the file, but print it from a book, the blank pages are reinserted.

So, what is the good of filtering by attribute if one is left with many blank pages?

Am I doing something wrong? Or need to set some flag somewhere?

Thanks,

Van

Report · Apr 16, 2009

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If I filter the document by attribute, which results in many blank pages, and then change the pagination to Delete Empty Pages, the blank pages ARE deleted. If I then change the pagination to Even, one blank page is added to make the count even. I can save the document and NO blank pages are added; however, if I close the document and reopen it, the content remains filtered but the extra blank pages are displayed.

The filter by attribute seems pointless if the hidden content is used to determine the number of pages displayed.

Report · Apr 17, 2009

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If the filters are applied to each document in a book and saved, when I open the files from the book, the blank pages display. When I update the book, the extra blank pages disappear, as I think they should. I can then create a PDF of the book and the extra blank pages are not there. Saving and closing the documents and then printing the book causes the extra blank pages to appear in the print/PDF.

In other words, updating the book causes the extra blank pages to disappear but only if the documents are open. This appears to one of those all-documents-in-the-book-need-to-be-open-to-work operation, which I thought we got rid of several versions ago.

I hope someone from Adobe is reading this and can explain what I need to do to make this work as desired and whether this is indeed a bug.

Van