Backwards page numbering?
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A client just posed an interesting problem: she is designing a book that has several pages with normal, Western-style page numbering, and then the 2nd half of the book has to be numbered backwards. The pages are not upside down or anything; they just need to be numbered from 200 to 1 in reverse order.
I can’t think of any automatic way to do this and have them update automatically if pages are added or deleted etc.
Does anybody know of a way? Is this a script solution? Probably not worth writing a script for a one-shot project.
I suspect that it’s one of those times where you just have to do it manually. But, if anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
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It’s for a book where the last 200 pages are a reproduction of a Japanese sketchbook. Yes, we could split out the InDesign docs, and let the printer figure out the imposition by combining the PDFs.
But, unless I’m wrong, we would need a Middle Eastern (or Asian?) version of InDesign to do the backwards numbering. Is this a feature that is available using the North American version?
The page numbering is likely to change so doing it manually is a bit of a drag, but at this point, since it’s a one-off and we don’t frequently work on this kind of thing, I don’t expect there to be any other way.
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