Blank Page after title page

[erinep23]

This is always a problem for me -- The title page. What I used to do, is a have a seperate topic for my title page with nothing in it, than assign it to the FRONT page on the page layouts. But that caused extra pages to occur. Than I assigned the FRONT page to the Copyright topic (which historically is the next topic in the TOC after the title topic). That used to work, but now I am getting the blank page again. My FRONT page has a very large icon on it. I am wondering if that is the reason? Anyone else have this problem?

[LTinker68]

What I do is have a topic called titlePg.htm that has the document title variable and a couple of other blocks of text. Then I have a page layout specifically for the title page that includes a full-page background image and a body frame to hold the content from titlePg.htm. That title page with background uses the Title page type in the page layout. I also have an Empty page in the page layout and on there I typed my copyright text directly into a decoration frame or header frame (can't remember which). In the TOC Editor, I point the titlePg.htm to the appropriate page layout file and set it to auto-end on left. That forces it to insert the Empty page (with the copyright info) after the Title page. The remaining content in the output uses a different page layout that has Left/Right pages.

Perhaps that setup will work better for you. Nothing says you have to use just one page layout for your output -- you can use multiple ones, you just have to specify them with the appropriate topics in the TOC Editor.