While published sheets try to juggle the amount of white space that needs to be allowed for each type of ability or equipment or other option in order to let the user have enough space to add all the ones that apply to their character, when generating a printed character sheet in a computer, you can calculate exactly how much space is required for each category of things for this character, so the problem is to instead to juggle the arrangement of those sections for this particular character. (I'm sorry to say that the current Pathfinder character sheet printout still has most of its roots in the printout that was set up back when the d20 files were added to Hero Lab, and was based off the character sheet from the back of that player's handbook).
From a user's point of view, it looked like the spill-over didn't continue directly to page 2, and made the rest of the weapons not very obvious while reading the sheet. Even weirder was when we put the gear section at the top left of pg 2, as on that book's sheet - the spillover from the first page of the weapons section would be placed after the gear table.
#BLANK 3.5 CHARACTER SHEET HOW TO#
Translate that into Hero Lab, and only those characters with very few weapons will actually be able to fit them into the same space that was on the printed sheet - everyone else gets a second section of weapons on page 2, leading to the current weapon printout that gets so many complaints (everyone asks how to control the order the weapons print in, as a substitute for controlling which ones print on which page).
Take the character sheet from the 3.5 player's handbook as an example - it has a small section for weapons at the bottom of the first page. In my experience, published blank character sheets don't generally make a good transition directly to computer-generated character sheets.