Hi,
I'm using Acrobat Pro 8 on a mac. I have a form which I want to add page numbers to. However, there are 20 pages in the form and I want to start the numbering on page 13 with the page number 1.
When I add the footer and set all the options to start numbering at 1 and set the page range from 13-20, it always puts 13 as my starting page number and not 1.
Is this a bug? am I doing something wrong? Its really weird.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Something to try.
Open the Pages panel.
Right click on a page to open the context menu.
Select "Number Pages".
In the Page Numbering dialog's Pages pane, set the "From:" "To:" values at 1 and 12.
In the Numbering pane, set Style to something other than arabic numeral.
Let's use "i, ii, iii, ..."
Set Start: to appropriate value for the Style selected (for us, "i").
Do "OK".
Get back to the Page Numbering dialog.
For the "From:" "To:" range, use values 13 and 20.
Set Style to "1, 2, 3, ..."
Set Start to "1".
Do the "OK"; save the PDF.
Observe the PDF's page number display.
For PDF pages 1 through 12 you'll see [ i ] (1 of 20) to [ xii ] (12 of 20)
For PDF pages 13 through 20 you'll see [ 1 ] (13 of 20) to [ 8 ] (20 of 20)
Bring up the Add Header and Footer dialog.
Select your page numbering format.
Let's use "1 of n".
Select your page range options.
Let's use "Pages from: 13 to 20"
The PDF has 20 physical pages. We've established two sets of logical page ranges; but, the dialog here needs the physical page numbers.
Select the desired header/footer region (let's use "Right Footer Text" for this).
Click the Insert Page Number button & do "OK".Now scroll through the pages.
Physical pages 1 through 12 have no header entry.
Physical pages 12 through 20 have a header entry.
Physical page "13" (logical page "1") shows a header entry of "1 of 8".
Each subsequent page has an appropriate header entry ending at physical page "20" (logical page "8") which shows
a heading entry of "8 of 8".
It's like partioning a single, physical HDD into mutiple logical drives.
Used to use this feature with Acrobat 5 but that was a while back & I'd kinda-sortof forgot about it .
Geoff Blakes [b]Document Basics eSeminar[/b] brought it back to me.
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