Re: Make page number appear on top of image

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> 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