Page Layout ⇒ Unwanted Empty Page at End of the Document

[keerthi2narayan]

My final version of thesis must adhere to a standard, set by my school.

I am facing a problem, as an additional empty page is inserted at the end of the thesis (this makes the total pages in the thesis to be even). I have several hypothesis for the problem, but no solution. I hope one of you could be able to help.

My thesis skeleton looks like this

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,openright]{report}
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\clearemptydoublepage %to start the ThesisBackPage on an odd page.
\includepdf[pages=1]{ThesisBackPage.pdf}
\end{document}

I want the single page document, ThesisBackPage to be the last page of the thesis. Even by using an explicit [pages=1], the generated pdf still has ThesisBackPage, and an empty page at the end. If I delete this page using a pdf editor the automatic format checker tool (standard adhesion checker) required by my school fails, obliging me to find an alternative way to suppress this empty page being inserted. So I thought of finding a way to disable this property of latex to add this last and empty page.

I think the problem is due to \includepdf, because if I comment it out no additional empty page is inserted. The problem could be also due to the combination of \includepdf and \end{document}. I have checked that the thesis can end with odd number of pages by commenting both \clearemptydoublepage and \includepdf statements. So I do not have much clue how to rectify this. Please help.