This article describes the processing of InDesign automatic page numbering for variable data jobs produced using the AccurioPro Build Document feature. AccurioPro provides a preference, Reset Page Numbering, to control how page numbers are assigned to merged pages when your document is using an InDesign automatic page number marker. You can access this preference on the AccurioPro Preferences dialog (AccurioPro > Preferences).

HOW IT WORKS

If you select this preference (the default setting), then AccurioPro will reset the page numbering for each merged page set. For example, if you are merging a document that has two pages numbered “1” and “2” respectively, then the first page in every merged page set will be numbered “1” and the second page “2”. When using one of the AccurioPro print drivers, the recommended setting is for this preference to be checked.

If you deselect this preference, the next merge session will not reset page numbering. Using the same two-page example, the pages in the first merged page set will be numbered “1” and “2”, in the second merged page set “3” and “4”, in the third merged page set “5” and “6”, and so on.

This is useful only when running a AccurioPro Build Document merge session on a document that is using the InDesign automatic page numbering feature to display a page number on each page.

PAGE NUMBERING FOR PDF/VT OUTPUT

Please note that the Reset Page Numbering setting applies only to the AccurioPro Build Document feature. The page numbering for printed output (PDF, PDF/VT, etc) will always be reset for each Page Set that is processed. If you need more control over page numbering in print output, please check out one of the AccurioPro Functions, such as the Sheet Counter function.