Alternate page number left and right on Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

[Olivier_B_Perso]

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

[try67]

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:

[Olivier_B_Perso]

@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]

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.

[Olivier_B_Perso]

@try67 , not really. I get a lot of double pages where the left and right pages are in front of each others.

What I wanted to do is replace the old page numbers by the new ones where the number would of course, increment left and right.

Adobe can implement script to do it? I didn't know that. Could you please elaborate if that's the best solution?

[try67]

Adobe doesn't create scripts for its products, no, but freelancer developers (such as myself) do.

If you're interested in getting a quote for this task feel free to contact me privately (click my username and then on Send a Message).

[Olivier_B_Perso]

@try67 thanks.

Due to the small number of pages, I don't think my company would allow the expenses but I keep that in mind.

Thanks  again