Total Page Count on Title Page

[Hales-Crotchett, Nicole]

Thanks Richard, yes, this helps. I'll be going the PDF route most
likely.

Cheers,
Nicole

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From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:43 PM
To: Art Campbell; Hales-Crotchett, Nicole
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Total Page Count on Title Page

Art Campbell wrote:
 
> On the last page of the book, create a unique tag.
> 
> Where you want the last page count/number to display, insert a
> cross-ref to the tag, using the Page building block.
> Update the book

Nope. Nicole said this is a folio-numbered book (chapter-page). If by
Page building block, you mean <$pagenum>, that will just give you the
number of the last page in the last file -- "4" if it's a 4-page index.
If you're thinking of an xref format named Page, in a folio-numbered
book that's probably defined as <$chapnum>-<$pagenum> -- maybe "IX-4"
for that index.

For a quick solution, David's idea of adding it in Acrobat will work.
Or, heck, use Acrobat to determine the page count, then add it in FM and
re-PDF. 

A longer-term, more extensible solution probably involves a script or
plugin. In fact, I vaguely recall there being a FrameScript script to do
this, but don't have time to track it down at the moment. 

HTH!
Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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