Page number in preview

[hasru]

Hi,

How to put the page number at the footer in prview mode. (print).

example- i have 40 batch to print and every page contain i batch with 50 records, how to make page number look like this

1st page - page 1 of 40

2nd page - page 2 of 40

3rd page - page 3 of 40

and so on until

page 40 page 40 of 40

i try but fail to get the result.

hasru

[Vaughan]

You need to define a global field to hold the last page number. Then you need to script the printing process so that it calculates the last page number and sets it into the global field...

go to layout

enter preview mode

go to page [ last ]

set field [ global ; get( pagenumber ) ]

...

On the layout that's being printed you need to have a merge field for the global field...

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[comment]

If the number of records per page is constant (i.e. no sliding and no forced page breaks), then the total page count can be pre-calculated.

[Emma in England]

Thanks Vaughan, that answered my question and also pointed me in the direction of omitting page numbers altogether if there is only 1, so thanks!

Edited October 27, 2008 by Guest