Page Numbers

The Page Numbers section lets you add, position, and style page numbers on your output.

The inspector has a link control, so you can configure page numbers for the whole document or override them per page.

Settings

Show Page Numbers

The master toggle. Turn this on to add page numbers to your output, or off to hide them entirely. (Like all the other settings, this one obeys its link control, so if you unlink the settings, you can have page numbers turned on for some pages and not others.)

Position

A 3×2 grid of positions: the six corners and centre-edge positions of the page (top inside, top centre, top outside, bottom inside, bottom centre, bottom outside). The positions are all relative to the spine (unless you’re using an imposition style that doesn’t have a spine, such as single sided one-up). Click to choose where the page number appears.

• Inset — Horizontal and vertical fields controlling how far the page number sits from the edges.

The insets can also be adjusted by dragging the page number around in the view.

Appearance

• Font — Click the font button to choose the typeface and size for page numbers.
• Colour — A colour well for the page number text colour.

Format

Style

Choose the numbering style from the dropdown: 1, 2, 3 / i, ii, iii / I, II, III / a, b, c / A, B, C.

Prefix

Text to display before the page number (e.g., “Page ”).

Suffix

Text to display after the page number (e.g., ” of 20”).

Pad with Zeros

Enable this checkbox to pad page numbers with leading zeros (e.g., 01, 02, 03 instead of 1, 2, 3).

Background

A dropdown to add a shape behind the page number. Choose from:

• None — No background.
• Rectangle — A rectangular background.
• Rounded — A rounded rectangle.
• Circle — A circular background.

When a background shape is selected:

• Padding — How much space between the number and the edge of the shape.
• Corner Radius — The corner rounding (only for Rounded).
• Colour — The fill colour of the background shape.

Exclusions

• Skip outside covers — Leaves the first and last pages out of the numbering entirely: they get no number, and they aren’t counted in the sequence.
• Skip inside covers — The same, but for the second and second-to-last pages.
• Hide on blank pages — Hides the number on blank pages. Unlike the skip options, blanks still count in the sequence — numbering carries on as though the number were shown.

This Page

Beneath the main settings box is a second box, This Page (or These Pages if you have several selected). It controls numbering for just the selected page(s):

• Numbering — Follows sequence numbers the page normally. Restart at starts the numbering again from the value you enter, from this page onwards. On the first page of the document this reads Start at instead — use it if you want your numbering to begin at something other than 1.
• Visibility — Default follows the rules configured above. Show always draws a number on this page, and Hide never does.

This box is hidden when Show Page Numbers is off.