You could easily omit the Page X of xX, but leave the timestamp Then add Page X of XX programmatically using pdftools or some similar pdf command line tools.
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, 22:35 , <avi.e.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having read all of the replies, it seems there are solutions for the > question and the OP points out that some solutions such as making the > document twice will affect the creation date. > > I suspect the additional time to do so is seconds or at most minutes so it > may not be a big deal. > > But what about the idea of creating a PDF with a placeholder like "Page N > of > XXX" and after the file has been created, dates and all, perhaps edit it > programmatically and replace all instances of XXX with something of the > same > length like " 23" as there seem to be tools like the pdftools package that > let you get the number of pages. I have no idea if some program, perhaps > external, can do that and retain the date you want. > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Dennis Fisher > Sent: Friday, December 1, 2023 3:53 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] adding "Page X of XX" to PDFs > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
