placing total # of pages in document on each page?

[smith385]

Is there a formula or procedure that will automatically calculate the total number of pages within the book and place that total on each of the pages?

Example: Page 3 of 305

I know how to get the individual pages to show up, but I don't know how to get the total (305) to show up. There are 19 separate InDesign documents that I'm compiling into one InDesign Book. I've been entering that manually on each of the master pages wihtin each of the 19 documents and of course all 19 documents keep growing in pages. I don't want to go into each of the 19 master pages to changing the total number of pages.

If anyone knows how to get it to automatically calculate the total number of pages in the book I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[Eggles]

There is no way built-in to ID to do this, but there might be a script available for download at the Adobe Studio Exchange.

 

[jmgalvin]

The Book feature is not the greatest. It's a holdover from Pagemaker at a time when computers had little memory and slower processors, making long documents cumbersome, slow to refresh, and crash prone. When you create books you're giving up quite a bit of editabliity.

Indesign can easily handle a huge number of pages in a document, as long as you have a decent processor, vram, and ram. Your 300 page doc would be rather trivial. This is especially true if you use the "go to page" gizmo on the bottom of the window.

If yu were to combine the various docs into one, rather than a book, your problem would easy to solve. You cna search this forom for "combine indesign doucments" or similar as it's been explained many times.



Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Ekwoman]

I think this script might do what you need:

http://www.j2s.net/EN/Products/j2sAutodata.html

Here is the description:
J2SAutodata is a plug-in designed to insert the total number of pages of a document and keep this number up to date as pages are added or removed.
J2SAutoData also works with InDesign books.

Hope that helps.