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8 total messages Started by Richard_Archer-Jones Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:21

#205

Author: Richard_Archer-Jones
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:21

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I can't get the page numbering system to start from any page other than page 1.

I want my page numbering to start from page 5 of my document. I've placed my numbers on the master pages but when I go to File / Document Setup and type 5 into the 'Start page' box I find that my document pages now start at page 5 but the page numbering on the actual document itself still starts at page 1.

This is mighty strange, what's going on? I've tried all ways, how do I get the page numbering to start on page 5? Is this possible in PM or is someone going to advise I get InDesign for such a facility?

Re: Page Numbering

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Author: John_Davies
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:19

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Is this a Master page issue?

Check the FAQs:
* John Davies, "9.10 - Page numbering 1" #1, 17 Apr 2003 6:04 am </webx?14@@.1de8c44d/0>
* John Davies, "9.11 - Page Numbering 2" #1, 4 Jan 2004 10:29 am </webx?14@@.2ccf2f20/0>

Iechyd da! John
21:19 12/02/2009 GMT

Re: Page Numbering

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Author: Richard_Archer-Jones
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:50

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Ah, thanks once again John. This is a strange failing of PM. Who includes the cover, contents, and introduction in the numbering? Must have been a Friday job.

Re: Page Numbering

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Author: Bob Levine
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:52

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>  This is a strange failing of PM.

Seriously...get with the program here. PM is dead for a reason.

Bob

Re: Page Numbering

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Author: Richard_Archer-Jones
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:23

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      PM is dead for a reason.




Well, I would have thought that would be a simple enough thing to cure. No reason for Adobe to dump PM and create a new programme i.e. ID. Why not just improve PM? Anyway, that's another story, perhaps there was something fundamentally wrong with it.

Re: Page Numbering

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Author: Carole_Caruso
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:00

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I am just an amateur, but I tried changing the starting page number to 5 in the document setup box, and all works fine when I print out in pdf. So it works with my PM65. Am I missing something here?

After working with PM65 for many, many hours, I have learned two things, carved in stone:

Re-boot often

Defrag often.

The manual tells you to do this. Believe it!

Carole

Re: Page Numbering

#242

Author: Bob Levine
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:21

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There was a very good reason...PM's code was such a mess that it 
couldn't be upgraded. That is not conjecture, either; it's fact.

Adobe bought Aldus, not to get PM, but to get a new program they were 
developing, a program that came to be called InDesign.

Bob

Re: Page Numbering

#243

Author: Richard_Archer-Jones
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:56

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Ah Rob, so there is something fundamentally wrong with it. Now that's a reason. I didn't know Aldus had started the development of the programme that then became ID.

Anyway, Carole, I have PM7 and I've tried it again and the same happens. Any number that I type into the Start Page Number box is then the number that page 1 starts with. If I type in 5, then page one starts as 5 (and who wants the cover given a page number?), and also PM's own numbering of the document pages starts as numbering page 1 as page 5 aswell, which makes the page numbering system next to useless, unless you split the document up as suggested in the solutions suggested in John's link above.

What I want of course is for page 5 to start as page 1.

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