How to control the PDF page counter?

Generally, JustOn prints the page number for produced PDF files. The templates by default include the pattern [PageLabel] [PageCounter] [OfLabel] [NumberOfPages] (see Built-In Placeholders) in the field Info Left (hidden on the first page, see PDF Contents). This produces a string like, for example, Page 2 of 4 in the top left corner of the page starting with the second page of a document.

Your business may require to modify the page counter display – move it to another area on the page or change a label. Assume, for example, you want the page counter on the page bottom and "of" replaced with a slash character.

To this end, proceed as follows:

Open the template to be edited.
In the Header & Footer section, delete the string [PageLabel] [PageCounter] [OfLabel] [NumberOfPages] from the Info Left field and insert it in the Footer field.
In the Overrides section, add the following JSON expression to the Override Labels field:
```
{
    "Calculated": {
        "OfLabel": "/"
    }
}
```

Since the footer is printed on every page of the PDF file, the page counter will be visible from page 1, and display like Page 1 / 2 for a two-page document.

With standard templates

The approach above applies to classic templates and to Liquid files on the earlier v2 engine. On a standard template, the page counter is not driven by the Info Left/Footer fields or placeholders. Instead, it is defined in the Liquid file using an @page margin box with the counter(page) and counter(pages) functions:

@page {
    @bottom-center {
        content: "Page " counter(page) " of " counter(pages);
    }
}

Adjust the content string to move or relabel the counter, for example, content: "Page " counter(page) " / " counter(pages);. For details, see Defining Headers, Footers and the Page Counter.