On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:23 AM, 1T3XT info <i...@1t3xt.info> wrote: > Viswanathan Puthucode Mahadevan wrote: > > Question : When opening the PDF file in Adobe Reader, how to get the > > 'Page n of m', because when generating the PDF file, it is not possible > > to know the Total number. > > There are two ways to do this. Both are explained in > http://itextpdf.com/book > > > Question 2 : In MS Word there is Field 'NUMPAGES' which print the total > > number of pages, is there any similar function in PDF to print the total > > number of pages? > > One of the two ways mentioned above works more or less like that. The > other way involves creating the document in two passes. > > This is a question that has been answered over and over again, please > don't use the mailing list for trivial questions. > > ...
I personally find it extraordinarily difficult to judge what is "trivial", let alone communicate it to newcomers. I wish I saw this more clearly. Viswanathan, along with the examples already offered you, a variant of the two-pass approach appears in <URL: http://www.itworld.com/development/106575/pdf-pagination-only-takes-a-few-lines>.
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