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Re: Another question about that troublesome blank page
Subject:Re: Another question about that troublesome blank page From:Sella Rush <SellaR -at- APPTECHSYS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:23:06 -0700
Re Fabien's comment, I think he's referring to the extra pages in
printed book. These pages don't have anything to do with aesthetics,
but with bookmaking (if I'm remembering right from a class last year).
Book pages are printed in multiples of 4, so if there are 77 actual
printed pages, the book will have 3 blank pages at the end to bring it
up to 80.
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Sella Rush
sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com
Applied Technical Systems, Inc. (ATS)
Bremerton, Washington USA
Developers of the CCM Database
> Personally, if it is the last page in the manual, I think it would
> look
> better if that last left-hand page were completely blank, without any
> headers or footers. You often see a (totally) blank double-sided page
> at the
> end of a book, just before the back cover. Sometimes, you see two
> double-sided blank pages. I've always thought that added to the look
> of of
> the book. In a manual, I usually don't do that, but in the particular
> case
> brought up by Peter Brown, I think I put just one blank page.
>
> Fabien Vais
> phantoms -at- accent -dot- net
>
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