Comment 8 for bug 1559855

Okay,
Thank you very much for your efforts.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Kovid Goyal
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> It will work if you disable page numbers. The way it works is that at
> the PDF layer it detects if no content hasbeen written, and discards
> the
> page, if so.
>
> There is currently no way to have it work with headers/fotters/page
> numbers enabled. I'll investigate if that is possible, but dont get
> your
> hopes up.
>
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> Title:
> epub to pdf conversion results in random blank pages
>
> Status in calibre:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> For the last number of versions, maybe since 2.40 but I'm using 2.52
> now, when I convert epub to pdf, I usually get at least a few blank
> pages in the pdf output. It seems to occur before a new chapter, but
> not always. Usually I have the ebook split with each chapter a
> separate <div> and the chapters split into their own html/xml files.
>
> It never used to do this, but now it's rare I can convert any epub
> to
> pdf without this happening. I'm running Arch Linux and I my calibre
> is
> updated directly from the calibre-ebook site, not from the repos.
>
> I am attaching the epub input and pdf output of a recent book I
> produced (it's in Spanish, but it's a fairly short and simple
> example). The serif font size set for pdf output is 18px, but I try
> at
> different pixel sizes and different margin sizes to try to get an
> output without blank pages, but usually with no success.
>
> I also don't think it has anything to do with page numbering or the
> auto table of contents output, as I still get blank pages with those
> options unselected.
>
> Thanks very much for any attention you can give this.
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