On Tuesday 26 July 2005 09:52, Jonathon Coombes wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:12 +0100, CPHennessy wrote:
> SNIP!
>
> > Howard,
> >  Please re-read what the original poster was looking for :
> > on page 1 he wanted "page 1"  (e.g. the cover page)
> > on page 2 he wanted "page 2"
> > on page 3 he wanted "page 2"
> > on page 4 he wanted "page 3"
> > on page 5 he wanted "page 3"
> > on page 6 he wanted "page 4"
> > on page 7 he wanted "page 4"
> >
> > To do "normal" page number is quite easy, but what this user wants is a
> > bit more difficult but not impossible. Of course I could have
> > misunderstood the poster completely.
>
> The only way I could see you doing this "easily" would be with something
> like a user-defined field.
>
> Regards
> Jonathon

This is a major problem in Calcutta's commercial printing. They go on using 
Adobe (R) Pagemaker only for this reason in place of say OOo or MSW. In 
ninety percent or more of the print jobs, two subsequent pages come on the 
same A4 sheet, so what they do is set the two pages on the same page, in 
landscape, and then use two page-number fields on the right page and left 
page, and two sets of headers, if needed. This saves their block making cost, 
one per page. This cannot be done in OOo or MSW, AFAIK. This is a necessity 
if OOo needs penetrate in the commercial sector. 

So, dear Coombes, it will be a lot of help if you suggest how to use 
user-defined fields to do this. Thanks in advance.
-- 
dipankar das

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