{"id":4808,"date":"2017-03-24T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2017-03-24T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T23:20:03","slug":"setting-a-starting-page-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/setting-a-starting-page-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting a Starting Page Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default starting page number for all documents is one (1). You can specify an alternative starting page number that is contained in a text file. This feature is frequently used for printing documents whose numbers increment: check numbers, PO numbers, invoices, and similar documents.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start the eFORMz Composer and open your project.<\/li>\n<li>In the Project window, right click the project icon &gt; Properties &gt; Advanced.<\/li>\n<li>Click Load initial page number from a file.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the path and file name, or click the file selector button, to specify the path and file name of the text file that contains the file number.<\/li>\n<li>Optionally, click Update initial page number file after printing\/output if you want eFORMz to increment the page number file each time it prints a page.The following table explains the different behavior depending on whether you check Update initial page number file after printing\/output. Your initial page number is 999, you print a 12-page document, and then you print a second document:<br \/>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Checked<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Unchecked<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The first document contains pages numbered 999 through 1011. The second document begins on page 1012.<\/td>\n<td>The first document contains pages numbered 999 through 1011. The second document begins on page 999, because it reads from the page number file, which was not updated.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4809 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber.jpg 576w, https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber-250x220.jpg 250w, https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber-550x483.jpg 550w, https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber-205x180.jpg 205w, https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber-342x300.jpg 342w, https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PageNumber-569x500.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default starting page number for all documents is one (1). You can specify an alternative starting page number that is contained in a text file. This feature is frequently used for printing documents whose numbers increment: check numbers, PO numbers, invoices, and similar documents. Start the eFORMz Composer and open your project. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[179,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}