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I don't know about the -genesis- of the blank page statement,
but I do know that one of our printers' document processors
routinely deleted blank pages (in it's wisdom, I suppose the
machine deemed them human errors in word-processing), thus
throwing off pagination, etc.
For us, while working with this printer (which was required
by a large-volume client), inserting the blank page statement
(or something, which was often a logo or "notes" page) on
pages we wanted left in the document became a functional
requirement.
Lyn
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From: Wright, Lynne
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 11:03 AM
But I too, have always wondered why this calling a blank page a blank page
convention exists... the only time i've ever seen it is in our internal
engineering white papers, and I can't figure out what purpose it serves.
So indeed, why do it? I mean, how likely is it that somebody is going to get
to a blank page and go: "WHOA! What's this? Someone must have accidentally
deleted all the text and pictures that should be on this page! I can see
that there are 50 more pages after this one, but I guess this is actually
the end of document! Help! What do i do?"
Is it just some outdated convention linked to obsolete technology that no
longer has any relevance?
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