Can you suppress page numbers?

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September 3, 2017
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Hello All,

In Acrobat, you can change the numbering style for pages to None, and then set the section numbering prefix to a text string, and the end result is that you have a text string for the page label rather than a number. For example "Adam" or "Bob" rather than "1" or "2".

In Indesign, the same is true except that you apparently can't set the numbering style to None, and as a result you have something like myprefix1, myprefix2, etc. for each page within the section.

Is there a way to suppress the page numbers? My script assembles PDFs and it would be nice to have the page numbers for each section display as Adam, Bob, Carol rather than numbered. I don't need numbers within the section, and since my section names actually include numbers it is kind of confusing to read.

Thanks for the help!

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TᴀW

Legend

Yes, you can. Insert a "Section marker" instead of a page number marker, e.g., given an insertion point called myIP:

myIP.contents = SpecialCharacters.SECTION_MARKER;

Ariel

jpegsexpertAuthor

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I was unclear what I was asking to do, sorry-- I want to change the page number display like so, not a text field within my page:

The screenshot is from Acrobat. In the Indesign document I'm using to generate my final PDF, the closest I can get is the section prefix followed by the page number: