A way to number every other page in PDF document?

[Asketa]

I have a book in PDF that I wanted to fix the numbering. However, the book is bilingual - left page is in German and right in English. So, the numbering goes like this: e.g. 20 (left side), 20e (right side, to indicate English translation), 21, 21e, 22, 22e, etc.

You can see the problem. When I go to 'Page Labels...', select the pages and choose style, it numbers pages with consecutive numbers, so 20 is 20, but 20e becomes 21, 21 becomes 22 and 21e becomes 23, etc.

I need a solution to number all the right pages or every other page differently (with a suffix 'e' for instance). 

The book is 517 pages long and there is no way I'm gonna number each page individually. 

[S. S]

Hi @Andrija5C10,

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

Have you tried the Bate Numbering feature? This can help you number the pages as per your preference if they are arranged in order.

To do so, open the PDF-> click on "Edit a PDF" on the left tool pane-> Click " Bates Numbering-> click "Add"-> Select the file-> click OK.

On the next window, click on Page Range options-> click on the dropdown beside subset and select whether odd or even (screenshot attached)

Add the numbering style along with any prefix/suffix you would like the page number to have, then select OK.

More info available here: Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs, Adobe Acrobat

Hope this helps.

-Souvik

[Asketa]

Hi Souvik,

Thank you for your reply. However, your solution does not change the label of the pages themselves. It just adds a footer of "002" on the page "2". I need a solution to label the pages, so that when I enter "35" or "75e" it takes me to page 35 or 75e respectively. 

[try67]

This can be done with a script, but it's tricky as you would need to apply a different scheme to each page.

[Asketa]

Is there such a script or a tutorial perhaps? I am willing to try it at least.

[try67]

You will need to read the documentation of the setPageLabels method. Take special care in noting that while this method takes a single page number as its input, it then applies the labelling scheme to that page and all subsequent pages. So you would have to use a loop going from the first page to the last, applying a different scheme to each one, so that they don't overwrite each over in the process.

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