HELP! Framemaker 7 problem.

[Charles Gray]

Here's my problem-- and deadline is creeping up on me quickly, so any
assistance will be greatfully accepted.
I have FM 7, and when I create a book, I use the numbering utilities
to generate the book. Fine, now the people I'm doing this for Don't
want ANY blank pages.
So I first set the book to delete blank pages, and go about my
business.
But when I try to update the book's page numbers, using the book
menu, I start getting all sorts of blank pages, and find teh damdned
utility has reset the files to "add pages to get even/odd"!

How do I fix it so that I can update the number of pages I have,
I.E., make the computer count the pages and change them so their
accuare, without having it up and start adding blank pages to me.

It should be noted that after the cover artist and other editors had
problems I've been running on about 4 hours sleep over the past 4
days, so if this is something very obvious, don't hesitate to mention
it.

Make sure that you have your Book pagination properties set properly as
follows:

The pagination "1st Page Side" must be set to "Next Available" otherwise it
will always

add a right or left page, or it will use the definition from the document
file.

Post by Charles Gray
Here's my problem-- and deadline is creeping up on me quickly, so any
assistance will be greatfully accepted.
I have FM 7, and when I create a book, I use the numbering utilities
to generate the book. Fine, now the people I'm doing this for Don't
want ANY blank pages.
So I first set the book to delete blank pages, and go about my
business.
But when I try to update the book's page numbers, using the book
menu, I start getting all sorts of blank pages, and find teh damdned
utility has reset the files to "add pages to get even/odd"!
How do I fix it so that I can update the number of pages I have,
I.E., make the computer count the pages and change them so their
accuare, without having it up and start adding blank pages to me.
It should be noted that after the cover artist and other editors had
problems I've been running on about 4 hours sleep over the past 4
days, so if this is something very obvious, don't hesitate to mention
it.

[Thomas Michanek]

Let me give a little more info on bc's correct answer:

When you set the Pagination properties before you update the book,
you specify how you would like the pagination to behave.
When the book later is updated, FM may encounter circumstances
that makes it impossible to fulfill your desired pagination.
In those cases, the pagination properties are reset to the value
that corresponds to the reality found in the files.

The most common source for this unexpected behavior is that FM
cannot make jumps in the pagination sequence and ignore pages.
Every single page part of the continuous "flow" of pages must
exist in FM. So, if file 1 starts on a right-hand page 1 and
contains 3 pages, it ends on the right-hand page 3. If file 2
is specified to start on a right-hand page (page 5), then the
left-hand page 4 (blank) must be inserted at the end of file 1.
It doesn't matter if you set file 1 to "Delete empty pages",
page 4 must be inserted, and FM resets the pagination to
"Make page count even" to reflect the necessary change made.

Therefore, check whether the next file(s) are specified to
start on a right-hand page. The first paragraph in the file
may also have a Pagination setting of "Start on right page".

There's another possible problem: an empty page at the end
of a file cannot be deleted if it uses a Master Page other
than Right or Left, or if it contains a page layout override
to its Master Page. Check how the Master Pages are applied
to any empty, blank pages at the end of a file. Page layout
overrides are reported by first viewing Master Pages and then
going back to the Body Pages (you'll get a dialog).

I hope this was as clear as mud :-)