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I am evaluating Framemaker 12 to use with DITA. I have a bookmap and want the footer on each resulting page in all the chapters and the index to include the Total Page Count of the book. I have attempted to follow the instructions in
However, the last document is my Index, which is only a single page. I am getting the total page count as 1. Do I need to do something extra in the dita-output.ini file or ...?
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You might get more help in the Structured FM forum – this one’s for unstructured FM
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> ... want the footer on each resulting page in all the chapters and the index to include the Total Page Count of the book.
There is no variable for the total page count of a Book. The apparent "Page Count" variable <$lastpagenum> only delivers the page count of the current book component file, and is thus generally useless for anything but monolithic files.
In unstructured FM, the usual work-around is:
As pages are added and deleted, run an Update Book to revise all the footers.
Now, as to how easy this is to implement in Structured Frame, that I couldn't say.
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