Custom Page Numbering - Restarting

[mliving]

Is it possible to restart page numbering at a custom point in a Publisher document without creating Sections, etc.?

I have a document that I want page 1 to fall on physical page 7 of the document.

Is this possible? I recall it's fairly straight-forward with InDesign (sorry for the comparison).

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[GarryP]

I don’t know if you can do it without using the Section Manager but the document I attached in this thread might help: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/196367-how-do-i-suppress-page-numbers/

[lacerto]

You could use something like autonumbering list with a flow setting applied in paragraph style that starts in a new frame after each paragraph break, like attached below:

Page_Numbering_Hard_Way.afpub

This would allow you to restart numbering on any page you like. Doing it with sections and page number marker on a master page would be much easier but obviously you have some specific reason to not use sections for this (e.g. in context of multiple master pages).

I am not sure but I think that InDesign automatically applies section page numbering when exporting to PDFs but it seems that Publisher won't do this [EDIT: both assumptions confirmed, so ID created PDFs honor section page number labels while Publisher created PDFs do not], so if you want the PDF to reflect your custom page numbering, you would need to use some PDF editor (like Adobe Acrobat Pro or DC, or PDF-XChange) to apply sections and custom page labels [so that users can see and e.g. go to specified page using the document's custom page numbering], like in the PDF below:

Page_Numbering_Hard_Way.pdf

[MikeTO]

You have to use sections to restart page numbering in Publisher. It's really easy. You can use a numbered list as suggested above but that seems like more work than just creating a section.

1. Click the Section Manager icon in the Pages panel or choose Window > Section Manager.
2. Click the Add Section icon
3. Change Start On Page to 7 and select Restart Page Numbering At which will default it to 1

That's all there is to it. There's more information for advanced use cases in the free Publisher manual I've shared in this forum.