I have a random blank page before a new appendix chapter in my document and have tried everything online to no avail.
Here is my class setup:
\documentclass[11pt,openright,a4paper,draft]{report}
and here is where the blank page is appearing:
\section{Adding an Item to a Room}
\begin{enumerate}
\item
Access the Admin Panel.
\item
Click on \textit{Room Management}.
\item
Select the specified entry from the list.
\item
Click \textit{Add Item to Room}.
\item
Select the \textit{Item} from the list.
\item
Click \textit{Link}.
\end{enumerate}
%%% BLANK PAGE IS HERE %%%
\chapter{Raw Results Output}\label{app:Raw Results}
\section{Testing}
\subsection{Application Monitoring}\label{sec: Load Testing Evidence}
\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\begin{center}
\label{fig:Application Monitoring Evidence}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\textheight,keepaspectratio]{website-stress.jpg}
\captionsetup{justification=centering}
\captionof{figure}{Evidence of monitoring the web-application.}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Best Answer
Your appendix chapter has no breakable content on the first page, and therefore flushes to a subsequent page. By default, TeX ties a sectional heading (
\chapter
,\section
,\subsection
, ...) with whatever follows it in order to avoid a sectional heading being orphaned at the bottom of a page.In your case, this means the
\chapter
heading is tied to the\section
which, in turn, is tied to the\subsection
which, in turn is tied to a large unbreakableminipage
. Since none of these fit on the page as a whole, it is necessarily flushed to the following page, leaving a blank one behind. You'll notice this behaviour by looking at the.log
and identifying the place where there's an overfull\vbox
warning around page 100.Solution: Introduce some breakable content (like paragraph text, or a list), or shrink the size of your image so that it will fit on the page together with all the other sectional headings.