Can you provide a very simplified version of how the PDF is created?
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, 14:39 Dennis Fisher, <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote: > OS X > R 4.3.1 > > Colleagues > > I often create multipage PDFs [pdf()] in which the text "Page X" appears > in the margin. These PDFs are created automatically using a massive R > script. > > One of my clients requested that I change this to: > Page X of XX > where XX is the total number of pages. > > I don't know the number of expected pages so I can't think of any clever > way to do this. I suppose that I could create the PDF, find out the number > of pages, then have a second pass in which the R script was fed the number > of pages. However, there is one disadvantage to this -- the original PDF > contains a timestamp on each page -- the new version would have a different > timestamp -- so I would prefer to not use this approach. > > Has anyone thought of some terribly clever way to solve this problem? > > Dennis > > Dennis Fisher MD > P < (The "P Less Than" Company) > Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) > www.PLessThan.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
