On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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Hi, I want to combine some papers into a single pdf file "with page numbers". I am including the papers using

\copypages[filename]

However, the pagenumber is not printed when the paper is a scanned copy. I guess this is because the page number is printed and then the scanned image is printed on top of it, thereby hiding the page number.

How can I force the page number to appear on top?

I tried layer, and it almost works. How do I get the layer to be evaluated at each page. I get pagenumber=1 on all pages.

\definelayer [pagenumber] [width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,state=continue]

\setupbackgrounds[page][background={foreground,pagenumber}]

\setlayer[pagenumber] [corner={right,bottom},location={left,top},x=1cm,y=1cm] {\tfb \getnumber[page]}

with layer state=start I get the page number on only the first page. With state=repeat|continue I always get 1. What should I use so that the layer is evaluated again on each page?

This is what I ended up doing \startsetups pagenumber \setlayer[pagenumber]{\tfb \getnumber[page]} \stopsetups \setupfootertexts[\setups{pagenumber}] This makes sure that the layer is re-evaluated on each page. This works fine but is there a better way to do this? If not, how about adding something like repeat=page so that the layer is evaluated on each page? Aditya