[cl-typesetting-devel] Empty pages, again

[Marc Battyani]

"Jeff Caldwell" <jdcal at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >> 
> >> I have again problems with PDFs that come out as empty pages on
> >> Acrobat 7.  Here's a simplified version of the code:
> 
> >It's the padding and border parameters causing the problem, I think.
> >The following code works OK for me.
> 
> I forgot to mention I also added with-page. 
> (See the code in my prior post.)
> 
> For what it is worth, the code seemed fragile. As I varied 
> the code I had the following problems:
> 
> . The pdf file contained only one very small page, showing
>   at 800% magnification and still very small in the center
>   of the Acrobat page.
> . The pdf file contained one entirely blank page.
> . Acrobat reported an "unrecognized token" error the text of 
>   which seemed unrelated to text in the source code.
> . I think there were times when the code would work if the 
>   table code was inline with the dotimes but not work when 
>   the table code was in a function.
> . and possibly other problems ...
> 
> Of course, now that I have reached a working version, the 
> nature of those problems may be eliminated or changed ...

I will have a look at that but now I'm going to Amsterdam. :)

Marc