Page breaks in Zomentum documents are essential for structuring your content effectively, especially when preparing documents for presentation or print. This article explains what page breaks are and how to manage them in your documents to avoid unwanted formatting issues such as nearly blank pages.


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What is a Page Break?

A page break is a divider that tells the document where one page ends and another begins. In Zomentum, there are two ways a page break can occur:

  1. Manual Page Break:

    • You can manually insert a 'page break' block into your document. This explicitly starts a new page in both the web view and the printed PDF, ensuring that specific content sections begin cleanly on a new page.

  2. Automatic Page Break by PDF Printer:

    • When content naturally reaches the end of a printable page, the PDF printer automatically inserts a page break. This ensures that content does not overflow onto the next page inappropriately.


Why Do Blank Pages Appear?

Blank or nearly blank pages may appear in your PDFs if an automatic page break by the PDF printer closely precedes a manual page break. If there’s only a small amount of content between these breaks, it can result in additional, unwanted blank pages.


Editor View and Page Break Estimations

The editor in Zomentum provides estimated page breaks to give you an idea of how content will be divided. However, these estimations may not always accurately reflect where the PDF printer will require breaks, as the final layout can be influenced by various factors like content size and formatting adjustments.


 

Best Practices for Managing Page Breaks

  • Optimize for Web Viewing: Design your documents primarily for web viewing, which typically involves an infinite scroll without page breaks. This approach caters to most modern document-handling scenarios where documents are read on screens rather than printed.
  • Allow Natural PDF Breaks: Let the PDF printer handle most page breaks automatically. This minimizes the occurrence of formatting issues and is usually sufficient unless specific content organization is needed.
  • Use Manual Breaks Strategically: Insert manual page breaks only when necessary, such as to separate major sections of your document or to prevent large elements from being split across two pages.


Removing Unwanted Manual Page Breaks

Once a manual page break block is added to a Zomentum document, it cannot be directly deleted on its own. The structure of the document means that only entire pages following the page break can be removed.


To effectively remove an unwanted manual page break within a document:

  1. Move Content Blocks: Drag all content blocks that are after the page break to a position before the page break.


  2. Delete Blank Pages: Once all content is moved and consolidated, the pages that become blank as a result can then be deleted. This reorganization effectively removes the unwanted page break without losing any content.