Sequence number over multiple adobe form calls

Dear all
I posted this question in another subforum - http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1997461 - three days ago,
but nobody could answer, so I try to post it here.
We would like to have a sequence number for each page.
The Adobe Form gets called more than once, so the second call doesn't know, how many pages were printed already, thus it cannot continue the sequence number.
Do you have any ideas?
Of course, I would prefer not to publish an SAP-service only for this purpose...
(The transaction is HRFORMS, we would like to print a sequence number bar code, so that the packing machine to the envelope senses, if two pages are stuck together.)

Hi,
I have a problem in printing current page number of an adobe form.
My requirement is that , my form got 2 pages. On first page i am not printing page numbers and excluded from numbering.
Numbering starts from second page. The second page needs to be repeated twice.
In this case my page printing should look like :
First page - no page number
second page - 1 of 1
Third page - 1of 1 (as it is a copy)
IF second page extends to multiple pages (eg.. 2)
First page - No Page no
First instance of second page - 1of 2 , 2 of 2
Second instance of second page - 1 of 2 , 2 of 2 . Presently it is printing like : 3 of 2 , 4 of 2. I need to initialize current page count. I could able to set the total page count 2 via variable from print program. But while printing the second instance, I am not able to initialize the current page count.
I have seen the following thread which exactly talks about my problem but with out any solution.
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10601698&#10601698
I have tried initializing the current page count in the initializing event and tried assigning the initial value when the second copy starts but for entire no of pages the same initialized value is coming.
Can anyone help me in this regard.
Thank You,
Regards,
Naresh.

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