How to set two (consecutive) page numbers on same page.

Hi 4martin,

will you hand over the InDesign document to your client?

If not you can do always two pages on facing-pages spread where you export as spread to a PDF.

The trick:

Two different text frames with the special auto page number character.

Both frames show the auto page number on the same page.

The frame that should show the next page number has its center on the opposite page:

That's one of two or three solutions using a facing pages document with two pages per spread.

There are some refinements to that method. More details in the threads other have linked to.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

A further note...

If the project is destined for print, doing this sort of layout is a complete disaster. There is no way to impose such a layout for binding other than to place the spreads back into a new document with half-size pages.

Hey @Peter Spier: I think it's safe to say @jmlevy and I misunderstood the requirement of designing 2 pages on a single page (because why?), and instead focused on two page numbers on one page, which comes up now and then. Your first response addressed it, but I was still busy typing. 

~Barb

See this post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/paging-double-page/m-p/11851978#M415597

You can trick InDesign into doing this for you. It is explained in this post:

https://creativepro.com/previousnext-page-number-on-same-page/

~Barb

There is not automatic way to do it, and you REALLY need to educate your client about how documents should be laid out.

If he wants facing spreads when you are finished you can export to PDF as spreads.

Tell him how much the upcharge will be to do this with a numbered list (one option for doing it semi-automatically) and maybe he'll get with the program, so to speak.