Rick Quattro contact me offlist about this issue. I now have a brand-spanky-new script that does exactly what I need, all neatly wrapped in a menu option. As always, Rick comes through with elegant and very fast solutions.
Thanks Rick. On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Lin Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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]
