Hi,
I have a PDF target that produces unneeded blank pages after the first and secondary headings and in front of tables as shown in the screenshot below.
And here's what the topic (Web Platform) looks like in the TOC.
I have tried adding page breaks in the TOC and in the table but nothing works. Also, this doesn't happen with small tables. The other tech writer here tried DIVs but that didn't help either. The only way I've been able to get around the problem is to create a PDF-only topic (no issues in the HTML5 output) and then manually break the tables up. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thanks,
Brian
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Re: Flare inserting blank pages in front of tables in PDF ou
I suspect this is to do with how page-break-before and page-break-after are set up in the styles for your headings and also in the style for your table. Can you give us an extract from your stylesheet of those styles?
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Re: Flare inserting blank pages in front of tables in PDF ou
ChoccieMuffin,
Here's the style for our print version of H1:
And here's the style for our PDF table used above:
Thanks,
Brian
Here's the style for our print version of H1:
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h1
{
font-family: 'Century Gothic';
font-size: 22pt;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #1dbecf;
page-break-after: auto;
orphans: 0;
page-break-before: always;
line-height: 25pt;
font-weight: bolder;
mc-hyphenate: never;
}
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table.PDFTables
{
border-bottom: solid 2px #000000;
border-color: #000000;
border-left: solid 2px #000000;
border-right: solid 2px #000000;
font-family: 'Open Sans Light';
padding-left: 2px;
padding-right: 2px;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: 2px;
border-left-color: #000000;
border-right-style: solid;
border-right-width: 2px;
border-right-color: #000000;
border-top-style: solid;
border-top-width: 2px;
border-top-color: #000000;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
border-bottom-color: #000000;
font-size: 12pt;
page-break-inside: avoid;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Brian
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Re: Flare inserting blank pages in front of tables in PDF ou
Ah.
On your table you have page-break-inside: avoid;
Try removing that and have another go. What that does is it tries very hard to keep the table together, and even if a table is too long to fit on a single page, it isn't smart enough to say "ok, let's start it immediately after the preceding heading and carry on for as long as we can before going onto a new page."
You might also want to try changing your heading so that you have page-break-after: avoid; to try to keep a heading with whatever follows it.
Do you use the setting that uses the heading levels in the TOC to define headings? (Can't remember offhand where that particular setting is.) It may be that you'll also need to do the same in your lower-level headings too.
Give those couple of tweaks a go and see what happens. You may need to do some further tweaks but that should get you started at least. Good luck, and let us know how you get on.
On your table you have page-break-inside: avoid;
Try removing that and have another go. What that does is it tries very hard to keep the table together, and even if a table is too long to fit on a single page, it isn't smart enough to say "ok, let's start it immediately after the preceding heading and carry on for as long as we can before going onto a new page."
You might also want to try changing your heading so that you have page-break-after: avoid; to try to keep a heading with whatever follows it.
Do you use the setting that uses the heading levels in the TOC to define headings? (Can't remember offhand where that particular setting is.) It may be that you'll also need to do the same in your lower-level headings too.
Give those couple of tweaks a go and see what happens. You may need to do some further tweaks but that should get you started at least. Good luck, and let us know how you get on.
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Re: Flare inserting blank pages in front of tables in PDF ou
That did it! Thank you!ChoccieMuffin wrote:Ah.
On your table you have page-break-inside: avoid;
Try removing that and have another go.
Brian
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Re: Flare inserting blank pages in front of tables in PDF ou
Happy to help. And I'm sure you'll be answering my queries, so it's quid (or should that be dollar?) pro quo. Happy Friday!
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