Multiple sets of page numbers...

[Stuart Rogers]

On 03/12/2011 11:38 PM, Scott Prentice wrote:
> Hmm .. my original post on this wasn't quite accurate. I'm not looking
> for the current page and the total page count (even though that's what I
> said) .. I'm looking for two sets of page numbers that change on each
> page. One number is the page number relative to the start of the book,
> and the other is the page number relative to the start of each part.
>
> First page of part1 .. p1 - b1
> Second page of part1 .. p2 - b2
> ...
> First page of part2 .. p1 - b20
> Second page of part2 .. p2 - b21
> ...
> First page of part3 .. p1 - b32
> Second page of part3 .. p2 - b33
>
> The "p" number gets reset for each part, and the "b" number continues on
> through the whole book.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ...scott
>
>
> Scott Prentice wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> I thought this was possible, but I'm not figuring it out on my own ..
>> maybe someone can point me in the right direction?
>>
>> I've got a book with multiple "parts". My client wants to have two
>> sets of page numbers on each page .. one the total page count (from
>> the start of the book) and the other the nth page in the part. Each
>> part is made up of multiple files. These need to be whole numbers, not
>> a combination of "volnum" and pagenum.
>>
>> For FM8 .. what am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ...scott
>>

I can't think of a way to do that in FM, but perhaps you could 
page-number the parts in FM, make a PDF, and then page-number the book 
in Acrobat?

best regards,

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