Alternate page number left and right on Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

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October 3, 2022
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Hi,

I get a document I extracted a chapter from a document A to insert in a lightened "spin-off" document A1.

Please note I don't have the InDesign materials for the document A otherwise, it wouldn't be a brain teaser.

So, the page number from the document A don't match their new place in document A1 and are still refering to their correct places in document A:

ie, in document A, they were pages 30 to 55 and now in my new document A1, they are page 2 to 27.

I wanted to correct them but I wanted to use the footer to edit the page number and I want them to alternate between left and right so they will always be on the outside part of the booklet.

Is there a way to do it automatically?

Thanks

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try67

Community Expert

You'll need to run the Add Header & Footer command twice, once for the odd pages and once for the even pages.

You can specify it under Page Range Options, then select Subset - Even (or odd) pages only:

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Olivier_B_PersoAuthor

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@try67,

Thanks for your swift reply.

In my eagerness, yesterday, I forgot a crucial point.

Since there are spreadsheet going from left page to right page, pages are displayed 2 by 2.

So, I get odd and even page number each scroll I do.

Should I split them (and how could I do it)?

Then, follow your advice and finally reattach them (Can I?) so the public can read it more easily (as it was in the original document A).

Thanks again.

try67

Community Expert

So you want to add a page number only to each second page, and then have it alternate from left to right?

I think that would require using a script.

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