Page breaks not working as expected in PDF output

I want to add three images at the end of a chapter, each on a new page. I have inserted page breaks at the appropriate places. Here is what the document looks like:

The resulting PDF has the following pages at the end:

  1. a new page, empty
  2. a new page with the first image
  3. a new page with the 2nd image
  4. a new page with the 3rd image

Why do 3 page breaks result in 4 pages? How do I get rid of (1)?

I don’t understand it, but if I center the page break, I get the expected results:

A page break is a page break, or? Why should its placement in the page matter?

I see four markers in both of your screenshots. In the first it is kind of obscured by the edge of the footnote marker box, but the bigger clue is that there is no pilcrow at the end of the line. In the second screenshot they are both kind of jumbled together at slightly different line heights.

So something is clearly weird with your text, that I can’t explain (particularly the absurd notion of formatting page breaks), but I would backspace over from the beginning of the first image line, until it is right up next to the footnote marker, then insert one single page break manually.

It’s also strange because I’m pretty sure Scrivener is supposed to ignore sequential page breaks, but it clearly no longer seems to be. I’ll have to check into that.

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Many thanks for the help. I’ll try that. But what is absurd about forcing page breaks? I want each photograph to appear on its own page. Is there a more elegant way to achieve this?

For this, no probably not. The absurdity I referred to is the concept of formatting page breaks (centre aligned). That shouldn’t make any difference, so it is strange that it would.

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