customizing page numbers in pdfs

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May 20, 2020
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I have to frequently scan large numbers of documents and add page numbers sequentially. They frequently have to look like "1a, 2a, 3a" etc. There doesn't seem to be a way of doing that. I can guarantee you in New Jersey at least and likely in other places, such a feature would be much appreciated in the legal community.

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Thom Parker

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There are two features in Acrobat for creating page numbers, The "Add Header and Footer" tool in the "Edit PDF" panel, and bates numbering, also in the "Edit PDF" panel, but on the "More" menu.

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joshuak60426181Author

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I’m aware of that. I need to be able to customize the appearance of the page numbers so each page number has an “a” next to the number, e.g. 1a 2a 3a etc, Neither Bates or the current page program/application allows me to do that.

Thom Parker

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I just did it with the "Add Header and Footer" tool, works fine.

When you select "add page number", it inserts this text "<<1>>" the <<>> denote the page increment. But you can put any text on either side and this is added to the page number so "<<1>>a" will append "a" to each page number.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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