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Set Advanced Page Numbering options

  1. Right-click a spooled/held job in Command WorkStation, and choose JobMaster.
  2. In the Page View pane, select a page or pages, and choose Actions > Edit Numbering and Stamps.
    Note: If you want to add chapter starts to the job, do so before selecting Edit Numbering and Stamps.
  3. In the Numbering and Stamps window, click the Add Range icon above the Type and Range dialog.
    1. Choose type of range from the Type menu.
    2. Enter a range in the Range field.
    3. To duplicate a range, select it and click .
    4. To move a range up in the order, click .
    5. To delete a range, click .
    6. To open the Select Pages by Range dialog, click the ellipses in the Range field. See Select Pages by Range
    For information about the possible settings, see "Type and Range" in Advanced Page Numbering and Stamping.
  4. To add numbering properties, click below the Text field box. For information about the possible settings, see "Numbering properties" in Advanced Page Numbering and Stamping. The numbering choices are displayed on the page in the preview pane, and the macro, or macros, are displayed in the Text field.
  5. To change the size of the page number field and to move it to another location on the page, use the Select icon at the top of the preview pane. The Move icon moves the image in the preview pane when zoomed in.
  6. To customize the numbering properties that you have selected, you can make changes in the Text field.
    Note: If you add multiple numbering elements to a range, for instance, page numbers, chapter numbers, and date or time, macros are added to the Text field in the order that you selected the elements from the menu, without spaces between the macros.
    • To add spaces between the numbering elements, insert spaces between the macros.
    • To create multiple lines in the page number display, use the Enter/Return key to insert a carriage return between macros.
    • To remove a numbering element choice, delete the macro in the Text field.
    • To add some static text to the numbering element, type the text where you want it to be in relation to the macro or macros.
    • To pad a page number with zeroes, asterisks, or spaces, enter the padding character, followed by a numeral indicating how many characters the page number should be, followed by a colon. For example, to add zeroes to pad the number to 7 characters, modify the page number text in the following way: {#07:DOCUMENT_PAGE_NUMBER}. If the page number was 6, the resulting output would be: "0000006".
  7. To add a background to the number field, click . Select color and opacity of the background for the page number field. The icon changes to .
  8. Choose Type settings, such as font, color, size, style, angle.
  9. Choose from the Numbering options.
    • Count only the specified pages - Select this to indicate that only the pages in the selected range are counted.
    • Use custom numbering for this range -
      • Pages to skip - If a page is skipped, the page will be included in the count, but will not show a page number.
      • Start # - The document is numbered starting with the number you enter. If you selected the option to count only the specified pages in the range, the section is numbered starting with the number you entered.
      • Increment - For each page in the document or range, the page number will increment from the previous page by the value you enter.
      • Times to repeat - Specify how many times to repeat the page number in the range.
    • Count tabs & inserts - Includes inserted tabs or blank pages when calculating the page numbers.
    • Restart after inserts - Restarts the page numbering after an insert, according to the starting page number you have set.
  10. Choose the Print options.
    • Print on - Print the page numbering on both pages, the front only, or the back only.
    • Mirror - Positions page numbers in mirror image on facing pages.
    • Print on tabs - Prints the page numbers on the inserted tabs, if you selected Count tabs & inserts in the Numbering options.
    • Apply styles to all - Select the styles you want applied to all the ranges.
  11. Click OK. You can preview the page numbering in the Sheet View pane in the Fiery JobMaster window. You can also save the settings as a preset to the presets menu . For information about presets, see Command WorkStation Help.
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