How can I invert the page numbering to suit japanese binding?

[raffaele1971]

Hallo everyone.

I use Adobe InDesign 2.0.2 on Mac OS X (Jaguar), Italian version.

I'm going to create a catalogue for the Japanese market and I need a script to invert the page numbers (you know that in Japanese the "last" page is the "first" for western countries).

Example
 Suppose that my document has X pages: I need that the "first" page of my document is numbered as "X", the second should be "X-1", the third "X-2" and so on... I know that the Japanese version of InDesign should solve the problem, but I wonder if there's a script to get the same result.

Thanks a lot to everyone...

 

[AdobeTim]

You should post this question on the InDesign Scripting forum at the Adobe User To User forums. The forums are in the Support section of the website.

 

[drbgaijin]

Has your customer actually said that they want the numbering to begin from the back page?

I can tell you that although most books and newspapers begin from the "back", most of the product catalogues I have seen here actually begin from the "front" with the same numbering system as in the West.

Japanese have no difficulty in reading from the "front" or the "back".