How to add page numbers to Postscript/PDF

Question

If you\'ve got a large document (500 pages+) in Postscript and want to add page numbers, does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

You can use the free and open source pdftools to add page numbers to a PDF file with a single command line.

The command line you could use is:

pdftools --input-file input.pdf --output output.pdf --text $page/$pages 0.9 0.9 --fitpaper

Regarding the --text option:

• The first parameter is the text to add. Some placeholders are available. $page stands for the current page number, while $pages stands for the total number of pages in the PDF file. Thus the option so formulated would add something like "1/10" for the first page of a 10-page PDF document, and so on for the following pages
• The second parameter is the horizontal position of the text as a percentage of the page size
• The third parameter option is the vertical position of the text as a percentage of the page size

The --fitpaper option is used to maintain the dimension of the input pdf file in the output pdf file.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of pdftools