Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

241.0. "Too much white space added during book building " by PENSIV::TRAPASSO () Tue Dec 12 1989 17:10

	I am having a problem in building a book for Bookreader.
	VAX DOCUMENT keeps adding too much white space!

	Here is an example of what is happening:

		I process the profile and VAX DOCUMENT tells me the
			book built successfully.

		I put the book into Bookreader and look at it.

		I start with the title page, but all I see is the
			copyright line at the top of the page.

		I have to scroll down about a dozen clicks to see
			the book title, another dozen clicks to see
			the next line of information, and so on.

	This is also happening in the Preface and chapters
		(i.e., having to scroll through about a dozen clicks 
		of white space to get to the next section).

	Any ideas on what is causing this to happen?  The first time I
	built this book for Bookreader, this happened.  Only once was
	the book built **without** the extra white space.  After that
	one time, it continued being built with the extrac white space.

	I'd appreciate any help you can offer.  Thanks!

	<<Linda Trapasso

Are you using the <DEC_SECURITY> tag?  (This tag allows you
to have a "security" level appear on each page. For instance,
<dec_security>(internal) causes "Digital Internal Use Only"
to appear on each page.)

Using <DEC_SECURITY> causes weirdly excessive white space to
appear when you build a book for online. I include the tag
in the profiles of my books for hard copy builds, and I
comment the tag out for online builds.

	Yes!  That must be it!  I had commented out <dec_security>
	and then put it back in for a hardcopy book build.

	I never would have figured this one out.

	Thanks!

	<<Linda 

    Yes, <dec_security> (as currently implemented for hardcopy) would
    do as you describe. DOCUMENT V1.2B will support <dec_security>
    for online so you should no longer have this problem.
    
    Mary