You should have a ton of new sections and everything should be numbered correctly.Īll files in this repository are free and open source software and are provided under the MIT license. not English/Arabic, but English/English, like for an atlas or some other single-language side-by-side document), modify pageNumberStyle for the arabicSection. If you want identical numbers on both sides (i.e. See documentation for more details on what options can be set here. As they stand now, englishSection goes on the verso/left and arabicSection goes on the recto/right. Modify the section options in lines 41–51.Set actualPage to the number you want your side-by-side pages to start with.Replace the values for startingPage and endingPage with those numbers.You can do this by counting manually (the very first page in your document is page 0, second is 1, etc.) or by selecting a page and running in the JavaScript Console. Determine the absolute page numbers for the first and last pages of your side-by-side section.Ensure the IDE is using the InDesign library and not the default 'ExtendScript Toolkit CS6.'

You probably don't need to install it in your InDesign scripts folder (since the script parameters will change with each document you use it on). Download sideBySideNumbering.jsx from GitHub and open it in ExtendScript Toolkit.If you don't do this, you'll get a lot of single-page spreads. Select all the side-by-side pages in your InDesign document, right click on the selection, and deselect 'Allow selected spreads to shuffle.' This will let versos hold odd-numbered pages.Here's how to do it (works in CS6, probably in CS4, 5, and 5.5 too): Using the script And so on for the all the side-by-side pages.Ĭrazy tedious. Right click on the next page, start a section at page 2. Right click on the next page, start a section at page 1 with some prefix (so there aren't duplicate pages). Right click on one of your pages, start a section at page 1. The only real way to get true side-by-side numbering is to create new sections for each page (see this blog post for reasons why you would want side-by-side numbering).

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