[SOLVED] Page Numbers not showing

[PelesDaughter]

Hi folks. I'm almost finished with formatting my book, and have been assigning page number with Sections, but baffled that no page numbers are appearing. What is even weirder is that for a second, maybe while I had the Sections editing box still up or maybe not, I saw them, but then they disappeared. I have tried closing and re-opening the program. I also browsed around in the search and found some topics with similar titles, but wasn't able to garner a solution. Any advice?

(the first image shows a very mysterious x in a box on page 3 in the corner where page numbers should be. this is the only page in the document with such a box. It is also a page which I have designated as having no numbers)

[utnik]

i wonder why the style is set to 'none' – and why almost all the sections are defined in reverse order. but that might not really be connected with your problem.
the box with the cross looks like a text overflow. this happens, when the text box is too small, but sometimes you think that it is big enough but it doesn't match with the baseline grid...
if i could see your document, i might be able to help. (but i'm sailing at the moment and my only internet access is when we are in a harbour...)

utnik

[PelesDaughter]

i wonder why the style is set to 'none' – and why almost all the sections are defined in reverse order. but that might not really be connected with your problem.
the box with the cross looks like a text overflow. this happens, when the text box is too small, but sometimes you think that it is big enough but it doesn't match with the baseline grid...
if i could see your document, i might be able to help. (but i'm sailing at the moment and my only internet access is when we are in a harbour...)

utnik

Some of the Styles are set to None because I don't want numbers displayed on those pages.

I hadn't even seen the Reverse thing. I de-checked all of those boxes, but it didn't change anything (I didn't think it would).

That would be great. As this is a book that is going up for sale, I am sending you a PM of the file.

[Nermander]

The "normal" solution usually is to place the page number text frames on Master pages, and for pages where you do not want the page number to appear you use Master pages without the page number text frame.

But maybe using None for number style is supposed to achieve the same thing.

I think the X in the number text frame is overflow? I.e. the page number does not fit in the frame.

[utnik]

ok.
i saw the file and detected the pagination problem.
in the 'sections' dialog you told scribus how to format the pagination for the different parts of your document. but you missed the part to place them on the master pages.

i'll send you your document back by pm. (with pagination on one master page)

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for this i would just uncheck the 'show' box.

utnik

[PelesDaughter]

ok.
i saw the file and detected the pagination problem.
in the 'sections' dialog you told scribus how to format the pagination for the different parts of your document. but you missed the part to place them on the master pages.

i'll send you your document back by pm. (with pagination on one master page)

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for this i would just uncheck the 'show' box.

utnik

Thank you. I got the document. Yet I am encountering issues both on the document you sent, and replicating your steps on the original one.

First, the one you sent over the page numbers on "Normal Left" are triplicated. You can see one example: "iviviv" instead of just "iv."

https://ibb.co/fd6qS12

I am not sure if this was intentional on your part, because (for the second issue I'm having) when I go to Edit -> Master Pages to investigate, there isS no indication of anything having been done: no text box that you have referenced:

https://ibb.co/ry7sW6C

I also tried doing the steps as you have described them on the original document. I went to Edit -> Master Pages -> Normal Left, created a text frame, and then went to Insert -> Character, but all of the options are greyed out/disabled:

https://ibb.co/grjHtbD

Also...

Does it matter that I didn't know that Normal Left and Normal Right master pages existed? Or are those "defaults" and will always apply?

Thank you for your help in this matter.

[PelesDaughter]

OK, so, I figured out that I had to double click the text box to enter "edit mode," and now the options for inserting a character are available. But, contrary to what the Help says...

Scribus doesn't display a real number on a Master Page, because a Master Page isn't a real document page and thus doesn't have a position in the sequence of pages. Instead, Scribus displays # as a placeholder symbol.

...no # symbol appears. I've tried it a few times. And, I have exited Master Page Edit mode to go back to the main document, and found no page numbers.

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me with this.

[PelesDaughter]

OK, so, I figured out that I had to double click the text box to enter "edit mode," and now the options for inserting a character are available. But, contrary to what the Help says...

Scribus doesn't display a real number on a Master Page, because a Master Page isn't a real document page and thus doesn't have a position in the sequence of pages. Instead, Scribus displays # as a placeholder symbol.

...no # symbol appears. I've tried it a few times. And, I have exited Master Page Edit mode to go back to the main document, and found no page numbers.

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me with this.

So, a couple of hours later of working on other things, and finally the page numbers appear... I don't understand, but, okay! I'm pretty sure this is solved... will come back later to confirm.

[Nermander]

There may be many reasons for not seeing the #, the text frame may be to small, maybe the color is set to white or something like that.