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Robbie26593
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May 30, 2013
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Page count /numbering issue

  • May 30, 2013
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Hello,

I have a document that needs to have the page number increment only on every left page.

i.e.

first left page has page 1

first right page has page 1

second left page has page 2

second right page has page 2

third left page has page 3

third right page has page 3

etc.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Robbie.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    May 30, 2013

    Not easily as FM isn't designed to work that way.

    You could script this to use a custom counter.

    You could also use double-sized pages (i.e. left/right on same sheet) and paginate that. Then output to PDF and use a PDF utility, such as Quite Imposing to split the pages in half.

    Note: using & maintaining cross-refs, indices or TOCs may not be a pleasant experience in your scenario.

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    Robbie26593Author
    Participant
    May 30, 2013

    Thanks for the quick reply.

    Maybe there is another way to acheive what I am trying to do...?

    I am writting a dual language manual, with Japanese on the left pages and english on the right, and would like to have the ability to print just the Japanese or just the english, ideally with consecutive page numbers.

    I have tried conditional tags, which works to a degree, but then japanese text ends up on the right page which has the english header and footers,

    Any thoughts?

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    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    May 30, 2013

    Is the Japanese and English in separate flows? If so, you can use your existing document as a master document, which you can print as is to show both languages. Forget the idea of having the same page number on right and left pages. Just let the page numbers flow as normal.

    Then create two other documents, one for English and one for Japanese, each with the appropriate headers. In each document, you text inset only one of the flows from the master document, which FrameMaker allows you to do. Then print each separately. Each will have the correct page numbers and the correct headings. Any edits you need to make are done in the master document, then update the text insets in the single documents.

    In this scenario, you have three separate documents but there is really only one that contains the content. AND no need to conditionalize anything.

    Van

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