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

[4martin]

Hello guys,

My client wants each facing pages of the document to be placed on one page for some reason so I have to insert two (consecutive) page numbers on one page. Is there such an option or I shall do it manually?

[Peter Spier]

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.

[Barb Binder]

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

[Peter Spier]

I didn't go through Anne-Marie's post in great deatail but my suspicion is you run into a problem with a multi-page document since the "real" page 2 needs to carry the number 3, "real" page 3 needs to be 5, and so on. The next and previous markers work off "real" page numbers (the ones assigned in the pages panel).

[jmlevy]

See this post:

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

[Peter Spier]

Again, this is not going to work. Client wants a full spread on a single ID page, not two number per page of a normal layout, if I read the original post correctly.

[Barb Binder]

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

[Peter Spier]

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.

[Laubender]

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

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