PREPS - pdf page number mark

[redlik]

Hi,
I'm trying to place a mark that will print pdf page number next to the page on a layout. The job is 192 book, perfect bound with 16p sections and the finishing company wants us to place that kind of marker, as the actual page numbers on the artwork are not in such order (there're roman, then numbers etc.).
Is this doable in preps, used alone without prinergy?

Something like the layout report gives you...

Thnx
R.

 

[DCurry]

From the Preps 7 Help file:

When used in page-anchored text marks, $folio prints the folio that you assigned to each page in the job's Pages List.

 

[redlik]

Hi DCurry
Thnx for the reply, I've started using preps couple of months ago only so still I'd ask silly questions: how do I anchor the mark to a page(s) on a sheet? I've created one and anchored to page foot but it disappeared, probably jumped somewhere I don't see it :-(((
R.

 

[DCurry]

Is it being hidden by the page art itself, perhaps? Maybe you need to offset it farther from the trim? To be completely honest, I've not had occasion to actually use this so I don't have a working one to refer to. Maybe someone else does something similar and can chime in?

 

[redlik]

I got it eventually, I didn't have my folio's applied, thus no page numbers were present. All works now, lightning fast comparing to manual imposition in InDesign )
Cheers
R.

 

[DCurry]

Awesome - glad you got it!