Xara DTP - Page Information

For whatever reason, Xara has never rendered the Page Filename in a Scroll website/Presentation.
It seems to have never even consider showing the total number of pages in such a document.

The Xara HTML Filter does define a pages array, xr_apl and a page count, xr_pgspapn, so let's use them:

• Create three Text objects with values ("#page", "#page-name", "#pages") and additionally with ClassNames(htmlclass="page", htmlclass="page-name", htmlclass="pages").
• Set these to Repeat on all pages - don't remove any after this.
• Add, the following to Website > HTML > HTML Code (body):

Code:

---

<script>
  var pg = xr_apl; /*Xara array of Pages[number, name]*/
  var pgno = document.getElementsByClassName('page');
  var pgnm = document.getElementsByClassName('page-name');
  var pgall = document.getElementsByClassName('pages');
  for (i=0; i , xr_pgspapn; i++) {
    pgno[i].innerText = pg[i].number; /*Page Number*/
    pgnm[i].innerText = pg[i].name; /*Page Filename*/
    pgall[i].innerText = xr_pgspapn; /*Page Count*/
}
</script>

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• Be sure to include a Page Filename or the page-name returned will just be Page nn, where nn is the Page Number.
• Alternatively, you can create a single Text Area of value "#description" and in its Body place, <span class="page-name"></span>: <span class="page"></span> of <span class="pages"></span>, noting you cannot mix and match the two display methods.
• Page Filename is forced by Xara to be all lowercase. You can use MS Character Map or simply copy and paste to get uppercase lettering. It all seems to work.

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