I'm converting a DOCX to an EPUB and, like the title says, most but not all of the chapters end up with a blank page between them. I end chapters in the DOCX with a section break/next page, which I've done for some while without this being a problem.
My "Detect chapters at" setting is "//*[(name()='h1' or name()='h2')]". "Insert page breaks before" is set to "/". I've confirmed there are no stray H1 or H2 style assignments between the affected chapters.
The blank pages are identical, as follows:
Quote:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Chasing Clay</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page_styles.css"/>
</head>
<body class="calibre">
<p class="block_12" id="calibre_pb_3">.</p>
<div class="calibre1" id="calibre_pb_4"></div>
</body></html>
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Here's the wrinkle: this happens between ~90% of the chapters. Maybe half a dozen don't have this. There's absolutely nothing different about the chapter ends or beginnings in the DOCX.
I can delete the blank pages and end up with correct EPUBS, but that's a PITA. Why is this happening, and how do I stop it? I've never had this problem before after having used Calibre for years. I'm using Calibre 5.16.1 for Windows.