Hello Friends,
I am looking to understand how to omit blank pages from my output.
I’ve created a new design template, and the sample data, (line printer emulation), is coming in correctly, however each page with content is then followed by 2 blanks, and this repeats throughout the job. (So page 1, 4 , 7 etc. only really should print.)
Looking how to skip / omit these blank pages.
Any information is appreciated!
Thank you,
Andrew
Can you share anonymized Datamapper example?
Hello @jchamel, and thanks for the speedy reply.
Apologies, I should have mentioned in my OP that I am using PlanetPress Design 7 & PlanetPress Production 7. I am not sure how to share a Datamapper example? (But I could share the anonymized sample data itself if that would be helpful.)
Additionally, it seems that If I enable ‘Cut on FF character’ in my data sample, this will remove those blank pages in the output, however, in my data selection, I need to remove 2 characters from the first line on the page. With ‘Cut on FF…’ enabled, those characters are removed on the 1st page only, and the subsequent pages formatting becomes off.
No apologies needed as I am the one that should apologize. I didn’t think to look in which forum section I was.
If you can share your form that would be perfect. Make sure it doesn’t contains any sensitive information.
@AndrewD,
Your template’s Page1 object is set to print only when the string .na_labels is found on line 16, column 38. However, in your data pages, that string is found on line 4, column 30.
If you make the appropriate changes to Condition1, then do a Preview (F9), you’ll see that only 3 pages are created.
Thank you very much Phil, appreciate your help with this.
I must be missing something though, I have applied that change to the Condition, and everything previews correctly from Designer, however when I send the template to Production & Debug, the output PDF now contains duplicate pages. (ex. sample data with 1 page outputs as a 3 page pdf. Sample data with 3 pages has 7, etc.).
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Andrew
You data is separated by 2 FF between each page.
Uncheck the cut on FF characters in your emulation and set the Add/Remove characters to 0
Thanks again @jchamel. I’ve made that change & am still getting duplicate pages in the output.
Not sure what I am missing here?
Thanks,
Andrew
Looks like changing the Run Mode from ‘Optimized PS Stream’ to ‘Printer Centric’ in the Create PDF properties within the workflow fixes my duplicate pages problem. Output from sample data when Debugging has correct # of pgs now.
Big thanks @jchamel & @Phil for all your help with this.
Cheers,
Andrew