Page Count

I have had a couple of documents that add blank pages no matter what you change the page count to....it drives me totally craxy. Close it and open it or make a pdf and get extra pages. It is only in the body section of the document. We have cover, toc, body, and then back cover. A co-worker is having the same problem with a document.
Page Count Set to Don't Change in book and document. I thought I had read about this somewhere but couldn't find it.
Is there an eaxy answer to correcting?
FM10
Windows XP
Thanks for any input!!
ls

You also have to look at the following chapter to see if it's been set
to start on a left- or right-hand page. If, for example, chapter 1 is
three pages long, chapter 2 cannot start on page 4 if it's set to begin
on a right-hand page. So FrameMaker inserts a blank page 4 to make
chapter 2 start on a right-hand page (page 5).
From the book window, right-click on the file(s), select Pagination,
and set 1st Page Side to "Next Available." Note that this option is not
available when setting pagination from within a document window.

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Why is my page count always 1 (regardless of number of pages)?

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In the footer I display (page number) of (page count).
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What I get is "1 of 1", "2 of 1", "3 of 1".
What do I have to do to get the page count to count the number of pages?
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Hello. I was searching the boards today, because I was having this same issue. I couldn't figure out why when I chose Insert, Page Count in the footer, it was always coming up "1" - Yet, Insert, Page Number would be correct. This is what I would get in footer:
Page 1 of 1, Page 2 of 1, Page 3 of 1, Page 4 of 1, etc. Should have been: Page 1 of 5, etc.
Not finding a "fix" here besides starting troubleshooting with creating a test User Account (which is okay), I decided to do some more troubleshooting first, and I discovered something.
I found my fix. I don't know if it's what was happening for you, but this fixed it for me.
Insert the Page Count from the Menu in the footer. Make sure the Inspector is open. Go to the Sheet Section. In the middle is a Page Options section. For me, the "continue from previous sheet" was checked. Instead, I checked the second option "Start at" and chose "1." That worked for me.
I started this spreadsheet from a csv document, but I tried starting one from a blank template and "continue..." was also selected. Seems like it's the default?
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Have a great day!

How can I get a total page count of a PDF before placing every page in the PDF?

Before the [long] spiel, I'm using javascript in InDesign CS3.
I'd like to create a script that places a multiPage PDF in any number of different impositions. (saddle stitch, 4up signatures, 16up signatures etc.)
I've easily created a script that iterates through a PDF and places it into a new document as (4,1|2,3), (8,5|6,7) etc, which works for printing in duplex, folding each page in half, and gluing the resulting spines to make a simple thick book (for PDFs with more than, say, 64 pages).
However, the next step is to re-write the script to create a saddle stitch document (16,1|2,15), (14,3|4,13) ... (10,7|8,9). For this I need to know how many pages there are in the PDF before I start placing the PDF pages, and then making the new document [int((PDFpages+3)/4)] pages long.
Is there a simple way to get the count of PDFpages without going through a loop and placing the next page from the PDF until the placed page number equals the first page number?
This way seems wasteful:
var totPDFPages = 1;
app.pdfPlacePreferences.pageNumber = totPDFPages;
myPDFPage = sheetFront.place(File(srcPDF), [0,0])[0];
var pdfFirstPage = myPDFPage.pdfAttributes.pageNumber;
while (doneCounting == false) {
totPDFPages += 1;app.pdfPlacePreferences.pageNumber = totPDFPages;
myPDFPage = sheetFront.place(File(srcPDF), [0,0])[0];
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alert("PDF has " + totPDFPages + " pages!");exit();
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It'd be much easier to be able to assign pageCount = File(srcPDF).pageCount !!!
Thanks for any help/tips or even a simple "What are you smoking, man!?"
Cheers,
Jezz

this will get almost all pdf pages count.
jxswm
function getPDFPageCount(f){
if(f.alias){f = f.resolve();}
if(f == null){return -1;}
if(f.hidden){f.hidden = false;}
if(f.readonly){f.readonly = false;}
f = new File(f.fsName);
f.encoding = "Binary";
if(!f.open("r","TEXT","R*ch")){return -1;}
f.seek(0, 0); var str = f.read(); f.close();
if(!str){return -1;}
//f = new File(Folder.temp+"/123.TXT");
//writeFile(f, str.toSource()); f.execute();
var ix, _ix, lim, ps;
ix = str.indexOf("/N ");
if(ix == -1){
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        if(ps == null){
          ps = src.match(/obj\\n<<\\n\/Type \/Pages\\n\/Kids \[.+\]\\n\/Count (\d+)\\n\//);
          if(ps == null){return -1;}
          lim = parseInt(ps[1]);
          if(isNaN(lim)){return -1;}
          return lim;
        lim = parseInt(ps[1]);
        if(isNaN(lim)){return -1;}
        return lim;
      lim = parseInt(ps[1]);
      if(isNaN(lim)){return -1;}
      return lim;
    ix = src.indexOf("] /Count ", _ix);
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_ix = str.indexOf("/T", ix);
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if(isNaN(lim)){return -1;}
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How to start the page count from second page (first is title)

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So basically the document will be Title page (no numbering), then pages after that of the form, starting from '1' shown on the bottom- it is a dynamic form that may change length as the user adds to it. Is there a script that I need to use, and if so how should I implement it? Any help would be appreciated, apologies if this is not very clear!

Use the Custom object "Master Page n of m" on the second master page.
Steve

Getting Page Count for a Multi-Page PDF file using Illustrator script?

Does anyone know how to get the page count of a multi page PDF file? I know you can then open each page using the PDFFileOptions (pagetoopen). But I need to know up front how many pages there are to loop thru to open each page and process each page.
Any Ideas?

This script i did for photoshop:
OK so lets do it working on WIN and MAC without any shell script.
This solution is not the best but its working.
I used Try catch to solve it.
Only issue is that you should at least somehow know how many pages you expect in pdf.. this mean if you are working with books or flyers...
Then set the maxPagesCount to that number.
I am working with pdfs with max 20pages.. so i start open the 20 then 19 then 18 and when i am success i know the amount of pages.
Its not the quicker way but its usable.
var maxPagesCount = 20;
var actPagesCount = maxPagesCount;
var opts1 = new PDFOpenOptions();
opts1.usePageNumber = true;
opts1.antiAlias = true;
opts1.bitsPerChannel = BitsPerChannelType.EIGHT;
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How do I show the status bar showing current page and page count? I do not need to see the full thumbnail bar.
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Copy and paste the following AppleScript into the now vacant Run AppleScript workflow window. Click the hammer, and File > Save... pick a name, and location to save the application where it is handy. Quit Automator.
Code:
-- P
-- Produce formatted dialog of document name, current page, and page count
-- Pages v5+ only. Works whether typing in document or scrolling pages.
-- VikingOSX, June 2014, Apple Support Community - Pages for Mac.
if not ApplicationIsRunning("Pages") then
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return quit
end if
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activate
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set diagTitle to "Current Document Page"
set docName to (name as text)
set thePage to current page
set curPage to 0
set pageCnt to page count
set pnList to its page
repeat with ndx from 1 to count of pnList
if thePage is equal to item ndx of pnList then
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set vformat to "Document: " & tab & tab & docName & return ¬
& "Current Page: " & tab & curPage & return ¬
& "Total Pages: " & tab & tab & pageCnt
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display dialog (vformat as text) giving up after 15 with title diagTitle
on ApplicationIsRunning(appName)
tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName)
return appNameIsRunning
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set pdfDoubles to POSIX path of ((path to desktop) & "PDF Export" & Doubles)
set pdfSingles to POSIX path of ((path to desktop) & "PDF Export" & Singles)
tell application "Preview"
-- gets quoted POSIX path and filename
          set pdfFile to (get path of front document)
          set pdfName to (get name of front document)
log pdfName
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                    & " | egrep -o \"(\\d+)\""
          set pageCnt to do shell script cmdArg
display dialog pageCnt
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Hi,
I am customizing the payables remittance RTF template, our requirement is to reset page number to 1 for each payment, i am able to achieve this using "@section"
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issue is last page is also considered in the page counter of the last payment.
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I need help with an applescript that can look at a pdf, determine the page count in file and then add that value to the end of the file name in front of the .pdf
ex.
original name "map with pages4c.pdf"
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Hello
That's quite simple.
Just replace this chunk of code -
tell application "Finder"
set n to f's name
set f's name to (n's text 1 thru -5) & "_" & p & ".pdf"
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with -
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set n to f's name
set f's name to (n's text 1 thru -5) & "_" & p & ".pdf"
end tell
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tell o to run
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on run
--main((choose folder with multiple selections allowed) as list)
main((choose folder) as list)
end run
on open aa
main(aa)
end open
on main(aa)
(* list aa : list of folder aliases *)
script o
property ff : {}
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set aa to (aa as Unicode text)'s text items
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set aa to (choose from list aa default items aa ¬
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with multiple selections allowed)
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set px to count t's paragraphs
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if p1 = -1 then exit repeat
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repeat with f in my ff
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tell document 1
set p to count pages
close
end tell
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end tell
set k to k + 1
end repeat
end repeat
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end tell
end script
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tell o to run
end timeout
end main
--END OF SCRIPT3
Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typos)

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