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dogloving1
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August 22, 2009
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Numbering files in a book?

  • August 22, 2009
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Hi, all. I'm fairly new to FM, having come from a PM background. I have a fairly puzzling, to me, issue and hope that one of the more experienced pros can help me:

I have 50 separate files in a book. Within the book, I have tabs which are really placeholders that  must be included in the .pdf file for the printer. I need to be able to number the pages in the book sequentially, skipping the tab pages. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this! I have no page number set up on the master in the tabs, yet, when I select all the files in the book and  number them, the tabs are counted in the numbering. I need them to be skipped. I came up with the idea of creating the tabs in Word and importing which worked GREAT - they were skipped in the numbering this way but, unfortunately, the .pdf would not generate with these pages in the book. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Lori

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2009

    Lori,

    The easiest way would be to create the PDF without the tabs and then create a PDF with the tabs only. Then use Acrobat to insert the tabs in the FM PDF at the appropriate locations (shift + ctrl+ i - and remember to keep things double-sided in the tabs if the FM book is also double-sided). It seems like a lot of manual work, but it should go quite quickly and it's a lot easier than trying to mess with FM's page numbering.

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