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

Based on rcs's proposed solution, I did the following:

Converted the document to example.pdf and ran pdflatex addpages, where addpages.tex reads:

\documentclass[8pt]{article} \usepackage[final]{pdfpages} \usepackage{fancyhdr}  \topmargin 70pt \oddsidemargin 70pt  \pagestyle{fancy} \rfoot{\Large\thepage} \cfoot{} \renewcommand {\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand {\footrulewidth}{0pt}  \begin{document} \includepdfset{pagecommand=\thispagestyle{fancy}} \includepdf[fitpaper=true,scale=0.98,pages=-]{example.pdf} % fitpaper & scale aren't always necessary - depends on the paper being submitted. \end{document} 

or alternatively, for two-sided pages (i.e. with the page number consistently on the outside):

\documentclass[8pt]{book} \usepackage[final]{pdfpages} \usepackage{fancyhdr}  \topmargin 70pt \oddsidemargin 150pt \evensidemargin -40pt  \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{}  \fancyfoot{}  \fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\Large\thepage}  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}  \begin{document} \includepdfset{pages=-,pagecommand=\thispagestyle{fancy}} \includepdf{target.pdf} \end{document} 

Easy way to change header margins:

% set margins for headers, won't shrink included pdfs % you can remove the topmargin/oddsidemargin/evensidemargin lines \usepackage[margin=1in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry} 

Answer 2

you can simply use

pspdftool

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspdftool

in this way:

pspdftool 'number(x=-1pt,y=-1pt,start=1,size=10)' input.pdf output.pdf 

see these two examples (unnumbered and numbered pdf with pspdftool)

unnumbered pdf

http://ge.tt/7ctUFfj2

numbered pdf

http://ge.tt/7ctUFfj2

with this as the first command-line argument:

number(start=1, size=40, x=297.5 pt, y=10 pt)