Can I number pages one way within a document and another way in the footer?

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Hi everyone,I have a problem: I have several individual short (less than 20 pages) docs each of which are numbered within a banner at the top of the doc:Page x of y pages (using <$curpagenum> and <$lastpagenum>).They are to be included in a book (with a few other longer chapters) that has continuous page numbering in the footer from the beginning of the book to the end, (as well as a TOC) .It might kook like this:Page 1 of 7, 2 of 7, 3 of 7 etc. but with page 234, 235, 236 etc in the footer. What ends up hapenning is the banners in the docs reflect the master book's page numbers instead.This is a very large book, with hundreds of individual files totaling anywhere from 500 to 1500 pages.Is there a way to create a book with this kind of double numbering scheme (as well as a generated TOC) without having to hard code it? I've tried turning the variables in the banner to text, but they get turned back to variables when I update the book, which results in the numbering getting screwed up. I'm working in FM 2019 Thanks, Robert

Bob_Niland · Accepted Answer

You're idea got my creative juices flowing...

First, I followed your instructions on creating the "Invisible" paragraph tag and the variable that uses it. Then I placed text boxes with another text flow [B] in the lower right corner of each page. I then connected the boxes in the order the pages go. Then I put the invisible paragraphs in the text flow and hit return until each had the appropriate page number.

Success!

Now we have to figure out the y in x of y pages without using the $lastpagenum variable

I've been using small Anchored Frames (Outside Column) , containing Text Frames, with ¶formats later set invisible, for other purposes.

re: …y in x of y pages…

If the final instance of your object can be cross-referenced, just create an Xref format of <$pagenum>, perhaps named PageNumOnly, and add " of " and an Xref to that final instance.

frameexpert · Answer

You will probably need a scripting solution for double-numbering like this. If you want to explore this, please contact me offlist and we can schedule a web meeting. Thanks. rick at frameexpert dot com

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