So here I am at the new job, and we're setting up FM templates. My coworker, who has established the house styles/layouts, had set up the old Word template with X of Y numbering, EXCEPT
- Page numbering for the body of the document, which is to say after all the front matter, (X) starts at 1. - Total page count (Y) does NOT include all the front matter (Cover, Inside Cover, RevisionHistory, TOC) or the Back Cover. Creating X is easy-peazy, of course. But how to create Y? [This may be something Word has over Frame, because in Word I was able to set up a formula in the field code to calculate what Y would be and it was all nicely automated. I've never come across something like that for Frame. And I cannot believe I'm saying that Word does something better than Frame ...] I've come up with two workarounds. One is described in the Adobe forums and consists of inserting the <$lastpagenum> building block on the virtual "last page" and then xrefing to it from all the master pages that have X of Y in their footer frames. The other is to set up a new variable (of Y), manually updating its value to the last page number right before release, and importing variables to the other files in the book. Both of these are doable but (to me) clunky and inelegant. Is there a better way already available? Because if not, I foresee me spending a considerable amount of time learning javascript then extendscript in the hopes that I can figure one out. I like my coworker, but he does NOT make things simple for me. ;-) -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
