Total Page Count on Title Page

[Charlie Kyle]

Here a shortcut for the PDF if you have Acrobat Professional. In FM put
some placeholder text on the cover such as Page count: 999. Open the PDF
in Professional, select Tools \ Advanced Editing \ Touchup Text Tool,
and change 999 to the correct page count. Sometimes there are problems
with fonts, but its worth a shot.

Charlie Kyle 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
Hales-Crotchett, Nicole
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:52 PM
To: Combs, Richard; Art Campbell
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Total Page Count on Title Page

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

Cheers,
Nicole

-----Original Message-----
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.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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