Can I remove white space to "compact"

Hi there, is there a way to remove the white space in my picture? I do *not* mean transparency. What I need is for all my coloured dots to be shifted closer together to be more compact.
Thank-you in advance, Michelle

The excellent Circle Fill script might be an option here, but it sounds as if the actual pattern has already been created and the request could mean something different.
Does that apply?
Also, which version of Illustrator are you using?

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The easiest answer would be to just get a Friskars cutter or something similar. I have one like this that I use to cut my photos apart. I found mine at a Walmart in either the scrapbook aisle or the hobby aisle.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <chart showdates="true" today="08/12/2009"> <phases> <phase color="CCFFCC" name="Funded"/> <phase color="CDCD67" name="Concept"/> <phase color="99CCFF" name="Feasibility"/> <phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/> <phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/> <phase color="CC99FF" name="Close-out"/> <phase color="909090" name="Sustaining"/> </phases><program name=""> <project enddate=" 30/03/2007 " id="43250" startdate=" 28/02/2006 "> <version enddate=" 30/03/2007 " number=" 1" startdate=" 28/02/2006 "> <phase color="CCFFCC" currentdate="23/03/2006" name="Project Start" plandate="28/02/2006" type="phase"/> <phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="04/04/2006" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="31/05/2006" type="phase"/> <phase color="0099FF" currentdate="29/03/2007" name="Commercialization" plandate="30/12/2006" type="phase"/> <phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="30/03/2007" name="Project Closed" plandate="30/03/2007" type="phase"/> <phase color="909090" currentdate="" name="Obsolescence" plandate="" type="phase"/> </version> </project> </program> </chart>
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I have applied the solution what you suggested above (<cfprocessingdrirective suppresswhitespaces="yes"), still whitespaces are existing in my output.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<chart showdates="true" today="09/12/2009">
<phases>
<phase color="CCFFCC" name="Funded"/>
<phase color="CDCD67" name="Concept"/>
<phase color="99CCFF" name="Feasibility"/>
<phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/>
<phase color="0099FF" name="Development"/>
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<phase color="909090" name="Sustaining"/>
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<project enddate=" 01/01/2010 " id="12059" startdate=" 20/06/2003 ">
<version enddate=" 01/01/2010 " number=" 1" startdate=" 20/06/2003 ">
 <phase color="CCFFCC" currentdate="20/06/2003" name="Project Start" plandate="20/06/2003" type="phase"/>
 <phase color="CDCD67" currentdate="" name="Concept Closure" plandate="" type="phase"/>
 <phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="20/06/2003" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="20/06/2003" type="phase"/>
 <phase color="F0FF00" currentdate="" name="Alpha Test" plandate="" type="milestone"/>
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 <phase color="0099FF" currentdate="29/06/2005" name="Commercialization" plandate="08/12/2004" type="phase"/>
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 <phase color="CCFFCC" currentdate="01/08/2003" name="Project Start" plandate="01/08/2003" type="phase"/>
 <phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="" type="phase"/>
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 <phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="16/10/2008" name="Project Closed" plandate="16/10/2008" type="phase"/>
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 <phase color="99CCFF" currentdate="01/07/2005" name="Feasibility Closure" plandate="01/07/2005" type="phase"/>
 <phase color="0099FF" currentdate="31/03/2006" name="Commercialization" plandate="31/03/2006" type="phase"/>
 <phase color="CC99FF" currentdate="31/12/2070" name="Project Closed" plandate="31/12/2070" type="phase"/>
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</subproject>
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import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
// Basic GUI components
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTree;
// GUI components for right-hand side
import javax.swing.JSplitPane;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
// GUI support classes
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
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import javax.swing.border.BevelBorder;
import javax.swing.border.CompoundBorder;
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import javax.swing.event.*;
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static final int leftWidth = 300;
static final int rightWidth = 340;
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String nodeName = domNode.getNodeName();
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s += ": " + nodeName;
if (domNode.getNodeValue() != null) {
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s += ", ";
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s += ": ";
// Trim the value to get rid of NL's at the front
String t = domNode.getNodeValue().trim();
int x = t.indexOf("\n");
if (x >= 0) t = t.substring(0, x);
s += t;
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//System.err.println("Looking for index of " + child);
int count = childCount();
for (int i=0; i<count; i++) {
AdapterNode n = this.child(i);
if (child.domNode == n.domNode) return i;
return -1; // Should never get here.
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org.w3c.dom.Node node =
domNode.getChildNodes().item(searchIndex);
return new AdapterNode(node);
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if ( listener != null
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listenerList.addElement( listener );
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Enumeration listeners = listenerList.elements();
while ( listeners.hasMoreElements() ) {
TreeModelListener listener =
(TreeModelListener) listeners.nextElement();
listener.treeStructureChanged( e );
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Nancy O.
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Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/

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... and despite Peter's not-too-shabby suggestion, I would still recommend using mine instead. It's easier on ID (since it only has to remove text, not "remove-and-then-insert-again" (which is exactly what using the $.. operators do), and, more importantly, there are limits to what $1 can 'pick up'. I can't recall the special circumstances, but I have had text attributes shift, and footnotes and anchored objects disappear/being mucked up/otherwise mangled.

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If you were asked the simple question: "How do I remove blank pages?" you would likely answer: "Format | Page Layout | Pagination | Before Saving & Printing: Delete Empty Pages."
If you were asked a variation of that question: "How do I remove partially blank pages?" some might answer: "Huh?"
That's my question. I have this tendency to assume that a vacuum of information on the search engines means, sadly in answer to this question, "You can't remove partially blank pages."
Before you answer, here is what I'm specifically attempting to do with FrameMaker 9:
1)   I converted a user manual in Word 2007 to FrameMaker 9. The TOC contains several hundred headings (seven levels deep). Of course, the TOC includes chapters (heading1) at level 1, and topics (heading3 through heading7) for levels 2-7.
2)   I converted the text and graphics under each heading (heading1 through heading7) to separate FrameMaker 9 files. (Each heading and all child sub-headings are "topics" that describe part of the UI for a software product.)
3)   All of the converted FrameMaker 9 files were added to a FrameMaker 9 book. The TOC in this book is identical to the TOC of the original Word 2007 file.
Each of these headings is a separate FrameMaker 9 file representing a topic mapped to the UI:
CONSOLE MAIN SCREEN....................................... 63
Inventory Control..................................... 81
Intellectual Property............................. 82
Using the Intellectual Property Page......... 83
Viewing and Configuring................ 85
Configuring Filters.............. 87
View Settings.............. 88
4)   I have linked all these files to a project in RoboHelp 8, creating a RoboHelp master page to render the help topics with exact same headers/footers in the FrameMaker 9 file. Whenever I make changes to the FrameMaker 9 files, I can open RoboHelp 8 and compile a new help project for the UI. Sweet. (It works so well, as a matter of fact, that it’s worth the cost of the Adobe Technical Communications 2 suite!)
5)   For customers demanding a PDF version that looks EXACTLY like the previous PDF rendered in Word 2007, I print a PDF file from the FrameMaker 9 book for this user manual that looks almost exactly like the legacy PDF file rendered in Word 2007.
Why “almost” exactly?
As you may have guessed, if a topic ends with a paragraph at the top of the last page, there is blank space for the remainder of that page. Whereas in Word 2007, the next heading began immediately after the previous heading!
FrameMaker 9 only has a setting on the ‘Pagination’ dialog for eliminating blank pages, not eliminating partially blank pages.
I would like to render the PDF file, printed from the FrameMaker 9 book file, with each file in the book beginning on the line immediately after the preceding paragraph of the file before it in the book (unless the style such as heading1 dictates the line starts on a new page).
In some cases, the last page of a topic has just three sentences, leaving the rest of the page blank. It seems to me that to do what I’m attempting, the recursive effect of starting the next file after the paragraph on the last page of the previous file in the book, would be to reduce the PDF by several (or more) pages. This would require FrameMaker 9 to adjust the page numbering of the PDF file (which would no longer coincide with page numbering for the FrameMaker 9 book files).
This is no different of a problem than anyone with a book that contains 10 files (each file representing an entire chapter) would face. If a chapter ends with a page containing just three sentences, one would have to fiddle with the text to get those three lines to “bump” to the previous page. In the old days of technical writing, this typical pagination flaw was a thorn in my side. I had to print the document, and if the end of a chapter contained “orphaned” text (or even a small paragraph on an otherwise blank page) I had to reduce paragraph spacing to cause that rogue paragraph to bump to the previous page, eliminating the white space. I was kind of hoping that after almost three decades of computing, that basic problem was solved. In a small book with a dozen or less chapters, it’s not a real issue, but now that I have a book with several hundred files, I’m facing this dilemma for the first time.
Suggestions, anyone? (Thanks for your patience in torturing through this message!)
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Excellent ideas; Text Insets created through File Import eloquently solved the problem!
I created a separate book that I will use for rendering the PDF file for the user manual. In that book are files for entire chapters. In each chapter file are text insets for each heading file (which comprises an individual "topic" in RoboHelp).
Here is what I did:
Opened the book file containing cover, hundreds of topics and TOC, and Save Book As... [new book name] then delete all book files except for the cover and TOC.
After opening a new (blank portrait) FrameMaker 9 file, I applied all formats from my master stylesheet file.
Selected File | Import | Highlight the file | [Path\Name.fm of sequentially first FrameMaker 9 file in chapter] (select Import by Reference radio button) | Import. (The Import Text Flow by Reference dialog screen appears.)
Selected defaults (Body Page Flow: A (Main Flow) | Reformat Using Current Document's Catalogs | Automatic) and additionally selected Manual Page Breaks and Other Overrides (Under Reformat Using Current Document's Catalogs) then selected Import.
Moved the cursor to the end of the file. (This is important because the cursor is now positioned BEFORE the imported Text Inset, and the cursor needs to be positioned AFTER the imported Text Inset.)
Repeated above steps 3-5, selecting the file containing the next heading in the chapter, until the current file contains Text Insets for all topic files.
Save the file.
Add the file to the book as the first chapter.
Repeated above steps 2-8 until the book is populated with all chapters.
Update and print to PDF.
Problem solved: I obtained the desired results as per my original message in this thread.
The side question was asked as to why creating a separate FrameMaker 9 file for each heading and sub-heading (as described in my original message in this thread) is necessary. The answer is simply "budget" as the start-up company where I work wants to instantaneously generate a RoboHelp Flash Help project from the FrameMaker 9 book through linking FrameMaker 9 to RoboHelp 8, which is evidently a new function. Each heading and sub-heading of the user manual correlates to a UI screen or UI component. The User Manual was authored (before I arrived on the scene) with the intent of each heading and sub-heading in the User Manual TOC documenting a UI screen or UI component.
Therefore, instead of spending time creating a RoboHelp project in parallel, the company desired the elimination of costs associated with parallel development. Since the budget is non-existent for online help, pressing Help on any UI screen displayed a boilerplate screen instructing the customer to call customer support at a toll-free number, and a link to the PDF manual. Now, with minimal effort, the Help buttons are mapped to open the help topic for the corresponding heading in the user manual. Pressing Help opens the appropriate heading or "topic" and displays a TOC and search tabs as well (for full access to the documentation). This scheme requires little or no ongoing maintenance in RoboHelp 8 other than opening the help project, updating the links to FrameMaker 9, compiling the help project in Flash Help, and checking the help files in to Perforce for the nightly build.
Thank you once again for saving the day!
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Hi,
In Oracle, using SQL or PL/SQL, how can I find trailing white spaces (space, newline, carriage return, tab) and remove them?
Thanks,

If you are in Oracle 10g Regular Expressions do it nicely:
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This will remove any character considered 'space' and includes all those you listed. It also has the benefit of being portable across character sets (EBCDIC) and languages (other languages have their own space characters).
Regards.

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