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6:55 pm
January 23, 2010
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Jongware
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We'd get clients complaining "some chapters have a blank before them, others don't", until we changed the PDF Open View to always show 2 pages at once, with a title page. You can change this in Acrobat, Document Properties, View Settings, then save.
Pity InDesign can't automatically create its PDFs with that setting (I sent a Feature Request for that).
– And we still get that complaint, only now it's not always. 
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2:39 am
January 24, 2010
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Eugene Tyson
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Post edited 9:57 am – January 24, 2010 by Eugene Tyson
I've thought about this for a long long time and came to the conclusion that it's hard to get people to understand the dynamics of blank pages and having multiple of 4's. I've see many times where they want to remove a page from a publication of 100 pages and not understand that it needs to be 96 or 100, and when ask them to put in something else instead they don't understand.
It's constant, because people get their head around printing, and that's why I'm there I guess.
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5:09 pm
January 24, 2010
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docbud
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Eugene–For book publishing we deal with 16s. And no more than four blanks at the end of the book.
Had one freelance deisgner who did a job and there were ten blanks at the end. We said you can't do that. He said, but there's six blanks due to chapters starting new right-hand pages. Just add 'em up.
It took a while to explain what even forms was.
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7:07 am
January 25, 2010
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Jennie
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SueKnopf said:
Jennie said:
Oh, the stories I can tell!!!
I have been forced to add "This page intentionally left blank" to many publications. The worst ever was that I had to create a page with nothing but the number 14 in the page number position because "people might think that we forgot to print a page" and we can't have that.
Chicago Manual of Style actually has information on correctly numbering pages…I love that book. (I know, its a book, therefore I love it…but this one is always within arms reach of my work station).
Unfortunately, I sometimes lose the page number battle because of my location on the organizational food chain.
This was a great question. I wish that the correct answer(s) was/were taught as part of basic writing, language, and literature courses.
I've had clients who didn't understand the concept that sheets of paper have two sides. They insisted on starting chapters on righthand pages, but when I sent them a printout or even a PDF (with some chapter-ending lefthand pages blank), they said, "I'm not going to pay for all those blank pages! Take them out!
Let's add the ever popular printing request item…1 original. Now the original may have 75 bazillion pages but they still think that is one original!
I'm not sure why people don't get this. Then I'm not sure I get people?????
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