Page numbers not appearing in PDF output past a certain point

Question

Hi.  I have a very large book layout in Aperture (> 300 pages) which I output to a PDF file (using the Print button followed by selecting PDF).  I have successfully done this many times in the past, but there have occasionally been times when Aperture's output just stops including page numbers past a certain point.  I think what it's doing is deciding on white page numbers for the rest of the book, which doesn't work so well when the background is white.  (I can see this because there are occasional pages which are full bleed, and the page numbers appear in white on those pages).
Has anyone else come across this?  I have seen this problem for years (Aperture 1, Aperture 2).  The solution seems to be to carefully modify the page layout so that no elements impinge on the location of the page number.  But doing this does not always solve the problem.  Just this morning I duplicated a page, changed its content, then output and... the page numbers just stopped in the output 30 pages *after* this page.  I just changed the page to move a text element up, hoping that this would solve the problem, and now... page numbers stop at page 263 instead of page 98.
This is a very bizarre and annoying bug.  Extremely annoying.  I am not going to print a book which has page numbers in only the first half or 3/4 of the book.  But if there is no workaround, and Apple seems not to have noticed the problem, I could be stuck.
Has anyone else seen this?  Any suggestions?  How can I report the bug to Apple?  I can't very well give them the output as an example, as it's about 800 MB.

Answer 1

Hi leonieDF.  Thanks for your reply!  I didn't know about the "Provide Aperture Feedback" link.
Alas the Theme is a custom one, it's 9"x11.5" so that the result is 8.5x11" after chopping off 1/4" from all sides.  (The printer does "full bleed" with 1/4" margins).  I originally created it by hand for Aperture 1.5, by simply copying one of the themes and adjusting the dimensions.  (Custom themes weren't possible until Aperture 2, if I remember correctly).  Perhaps that's the source of the issue.  Though I'm not sure how...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>pageNumberMargin</key> <string>{4.5,0.35}</string>
    <key>bottomMargin</key>     <string>0.6</string>
    <key>insideMargin</key>     <string>0.6875</string>
    <key>horizontalSpacing</key>    <string>0.05</string>
    <key>verticalSpacing</key>  <string>0.05</string>
    <key>size</key>         <string>(9.00,11.50)</string>
    <key>backSoftcover</key>
    <string>01_BackSoftcover</string>
    <key>defaultTextStyle</key>     <string>Baskerville/14/BlackBackground</string>
    <key>disableFrameScaleAndRotation</key>
    <true/>
    <key>frontSoftcover</key>
    <string>01_FrontSoftcover</string>
    <key>indexPages</key>
    <array/>
    <key>leadingPages</key>
    <array>
    </array>
    <key>repeatingPages</key>
    <array>
        <string>OnePageBleedLayout</string>
        <string>1UpLayout</string>
        <string>1Up2UpLayout</string>
        <string>2UpLayout</string>
        <string>1UpLayout</string>
        <string>OnePageBleedLayout</string>
        <string>1UpLayout</string>
        <string>1UpLayout</string>
        <string>4UpLayout</string>
        <string>5AcrossArrayLayout</string>
        <string>6AcrossArrayLayout</string>
        <string>TwoPageBleedLayout</string>
        <string>2Up1UpLayout</string>
        <string>1UpLayout</string>
    </array>
    <key>trailingPages</key>
    <array/>
    <key>type</key>
    <string>Custom</string>
    <key>version</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
(Standard themes are in /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/Book Themes, custom ones in ~//Library/Application Support/Aperture/Book Themes )