Chris, If you have multiple page sequences, and you restart the page numbering in each one, you may get blank pages inserted if you don't pay attention to the "force-page-count" property of page sequences.
Here's a section from Pawson that describes it: -------------------- cut here -------------------- The force-page-count property imposes a condition on the number of pages in a page sequence. This "number" may be an absolute count, or a parity condition. For each condition, if the condition is not satisfied, the action taken is to add one page to the current page sequence. The values of the property, and the proper interpretation of same, are listed below: force-page-count auto The action taken depends on the existence of a succeeding page sequence, and the value of its initial-page-number property. If there is a succeeding page sequence, and an even initial-page-number is explicitly specified on it, then the current page sequence is forced to have an odd number of pages. If there is a succeeding page sequence, and an odd initial-page-number is explicitly specified on it, then the current page sequence is forced to have an even number of pages. even Force an even page-count for the page sequence. odd Force an odd page-count for the page sequence. end-on-even Force the last page to have an even page number. end-on-odd Force the last page to have an odd page number. no-force Do not force any page count. Tip Note that the default value is "auto". This may cause action to be taken. -------------------- cut here -------------------- In brief, page sequences default to force-page-count="auto". This forces a sequence to have an even number of pages if the following sequence wants to start on an odd page. If it needs to insert a blank page to cause this, it will. To stop this, set force-page-count="no-force" on your page sequences. Just had to do this myself for the first time about an hour ago. Timely, huh? Patrick Rusk P.S. I don't know that this has necessarily changed at all since 0.20.4. It's worked that way in the latest CVS source for at least three months, as long as I've been using FOP. -----Original Message----- From: Chris McCann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: extra page breaks inserted Hello all, I'm getting weird behavior in fop 0.20.5rc that didn't happen in 0.20.4. What I've got is multiple page-sequences in a .fo file with page numbering being reset in between. In .20.5rc I get extra blank pages inserted in between page sequences. In .20.4 it worked as I expected no black pages. Anybody got any ideas in what it happening? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]