Pagenumbering in Indesign

Pagenumbering in Indesign: I know how to set the numbering in a document but I dont know how to do it if I want the document to start with f.ex. page 35 instead of page 1. Is there an easy way to do it?
Goran W

Go to Layout>Numberin and Section Options
Start Numbering at 35
Section Marker f.ex.
On your Master page, before the page number go to Type>Insert Special Character>Markers>Section Marker
View your page to make sure it looks ok.
You can apply a different style to the f.ex. if you want to make it italic or bold or something, if you like.

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answer is correct but also we're add that the pages one attribute more as masterSpreads.
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Your first problem is:
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What you should have done is something like:
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Does anyone know how to insert the pagenumber from the first page in a indesign-document, on a page of choosing? I can only find how to add a document last-page as a number.
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This is not intuitive,, but should work...
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Yes, you are right, I am stuck for a different reason, it does places the second page.
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Moved to scripting forum...

Import multiple pdf into indesign file

Hi ALL,
Trying Script:
By using inbuilt script "PlaceMultipagePDF.jsx" import all the pdf in the selected folder (i.e., 111.pdf, 222.pdf, 333.pdf) in the "test.indt"
But my requirement:
1. open test.indt file and import 111.pdf alone after that close with any file naming.
2. open test.indt file and import 222.pdf after that close with any file naming.
3. open test.indt file and import 333.pdf after that close with any file naming.
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Thanks
BEGINNER

Hi,
Try b/m code
var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select the folder containing the Indesign Files", "");
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Hi everyone,
I wonder if someone can help...
I'm trying to write scripts for indesign server which I want to:
a) search for,
b) pick out, then
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After that we produce a pdf of the document to pass on / do whatever. I've got so far with the scripting documentation but I'm stuck! This is what I've done so far:
1/ create a document template with a script
2/ add text elements to the document template (header and footnote, title,       body text i.e. intro and data, and the contact details)
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... I'm stuck on the indesign documents at the moment. I have       looked at various options, the most appropriate way I can see in       the manuals to get content from one document to another is by       duplicating. My understanding is to do this you have to target the text in the source       document, duplicate it and then add it into a text frame on the       target document. It's the targettting of the text and surrounding       elements in the source document I'm battling with.
any ideas on how I go about this effectively?
Any help and advice appreciated!

The story so far...
I've added the code kindly provided by getZinger (thanks again!) and am now stuck on the next stage, . I've commented the code where I'm having problems, and essentially have two key issues to resolve:
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2/ how I access the pdf's I want to insert from a location other than C:\Users\Whoever\Documents\
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//the files seem to be automatically placed from C:\Users\Whoever\Documents
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//this is why the myPDFFiles array only has filenames at the moment
myPDFPage = myPage.place(File(myPDFSet), [0,0])[0];
if(myCounter == 1){
var myFirstPage = myPDFPage.pdfAttributes.pageNumber;
else{
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I was going to introduce to the resize method, but that would have first meant understanding it myself. The description in the object model viewer is a masterful demonstration of how not to communicate complicated information.
So I did a web search and found myself on this page by Marc Autret: http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2013/05/indesign-scripting-forum-roundup-4
Search that page for resize and you'll see what I mean. Compared to the simple manipulation of geometric bounds, using resize is a nightmare of complexity. Marc has simplified it by providing a function you can call, but I decided to just go with using the bounds.
I hope this proves helpful to you.
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COMBINE 3 INDESIGN PAGES INTO I

Hi, I'm looking to resize and place 2 indesign CS3 pages (front and back of post cards-can be sized at 5.625" x 3.625" or 6.125" x 4.375") onto a 3rd 8.5" x 11" indesign page that contains the front and the back of the cards with additional copy. It is the way we currently submit proofs to our clients for approval as a single page that they in turn fax back to us. Thanks for any help on this.

Hi I tried something. Let me know if it helped.
Loic
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Indexing a book using Indesign CS 6

Hello,
Did not use Indesign for 10 years ... and - when starting it up again with a newer version - I was surprised in an unpleasant way that it is still not possible to create footnotes inside tables in a normal way without creepy workarounds. And a lot of other wacky stuff which prooves to me that Adobe uses this programm as their ever-living milky-cow without much thoughts about making its stable a little more confortable. But enough about it and sorry for my interruption.
So I want to create an index in my book ...
3 questions please ... and thanks for your help!
1) Is there a maximum of entries for the index?
2) Is there a way to have a better oversight when having hundreds of entries? Now topics, sub-topics and pagenumbers take 3 lines of space in my index-panel. So one has to scroll a lot when having many entries. Is it possible to have topics, sub-topics and pagenumber(s) on ONE line?
3) I started my book with 2 unnumbered pages. But the index-numbering uses the page-numbering as found in the pages-panel. I can start a new section but then my footnumbering also starts again ... (I will not repeat my grudges here about this EVERLASTING problem).
Is there a solution without manually correct all pagenumbers after generating a new index?
Thanks again for your appreciated help!
Sincerely yours, Peter.
Message was edited by: mummiepoep-2

Dear Mr. Spier (Beste Peter), thanks for your help.
But I still do not understand how this index-panel works.
Let us take as a start a book with two non-numbered pages followed by automatically numbered pages.
So ...
An "indesign"-page 10 (just an example) is MY page 8.
Indesign page 10 is mentioned in the pages-menu and when adding topics in the index-panel of the SAME page, they ALL have a number 10.
But the strange thing is, that when I generate a new index and paste it somewhere in my book, the above mentioned topics do CORRECTLY refer to MY page 8.
So I'm happy with that but I seem have to missed something. For instance (looking around on internet) most people prefer to adjust page-numbering optins to their master-pages what I did not.
And (to Peter or someone else)
does anybody know the answers on my two other questions ...
1) Is there a maximum of entries for the index?
2) Is there a way to have a better oversight when having hundreds of entries? Now topics, sub-topics and pagenumbers take 3 lines of space in my index-panel. So one has to scroll a lot when having many entries. Is it possible to have topics, sub-topics and pagenumber(s) on ONE line?
Thanks.

CS3 and Delphi: Place pdf into indesign

Hello,
I am developing a script with Deplhi that automates the creation of documents.
I would like to be able to place pdf documents in an InDesign document. I adapted a script that I found in this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3013174
I only had to define the proper types for the variables, cause Delphi doesn't allow untyped variables. There was one line in particular that I had to modify thoroughly:
myPDFPage = myPage.place(File(myPDFFile), [0,0])[0];
The PlacePoint parameter had to be an array of double, and the missing parameters had to be set. Eventually, the following code worked:
var
APoint:      array of double;
begin
SetLength(APoint, 2);
APoint[0] := 0;
APoint[1] := 0;
myPage.place(Filename, APoint, ActiveDocument.Layers[1], false, false);
In the original script, the result of the place function is assigned to the variable myPDFPage, and I am having troubles to get this assigment working. Often the TypeLib uses OleVariants and you have to figure out by ourself which type(s) are allowed and have to be used, and which type cast(s).
In the original script this code follows:
myFirstPage = myPDFPage.pdfAttributes.pageNumber;
The only interfaces in the TypeLib that have a property called pdfAttributes are PDF and ImportedPage. But neither of those types work if I define pdfAttributes to be of that type. I am not sure whether the fact that place seems to return an array adds additional problems. Most of the times, arrays from in TypeLib are based in the index 1, not zero.
But I tried
var
APoint:      array of double;
myPDFPage:   PDF;
begin
myPDFPage := PDF(myPage.place(Filename, APoint, ActiveDocument.Layers[1], false, false)[0]);
and
var
APoint:      array of double;
myPDFPage:   ImportedPage;
begin
myPDFPage := ImportedPage(myPage.place(Filename, APoint, ActiveDocument.Layers[1], false, false)[0]);
and the same with and array index of 1 instead of 0, and without any index. But none of it would be compiled without an error.
Doies anybody know how that command line has to be or which type myPDFPage has to have?
And more generally: How could I determine the possibla types of a parameter, variable or return type that is an OleVariant in the TypeLib?
I found some InDesign CS3 scripting specific pdfs here: http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/, but no complete reference of all functions and types.
Best regards,
Christian Kirchhoff

In order to make the code compilable, I had to do a double typecast. The result of the place function - in the Typelib - is OleVariant, and I couldn't use the snytax place(...)[0]; directly.
So I declared a variable myPDFPages as an array of PDF, and assigned the entiry result of the place function to that.
The new code is:
var
APoint:      array of double;
myPDFPages: array of PDF;
myPDFPage:   PDF;
begin
myPDFPages := myPage.place(Filename, APoint, ActiveDocument.Layers[1], false, false);
myPDFPage := PDF(myPDFPages[0]);
But: allthough the code compiles, the line myPDFPages :=... throws an error (after the pdf is inserted in InDesign).
If I just use execute the place command without assingning the result to anything, it works without an error. But the code I copied from the aforementioned forum thread uses the result, and so want I.
I'll do some further testing on this.
Best regards
Christian

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