RICHMOND FC PREMIERS 2017, 2019 02 Dec 2017 10:55:11pm
I have just found Bates Numbering and have been applying this to my Lighthouse /Steiner album pages - Here I have scanned, reduced to 75% and snipped.
Excuse the dead water beetle which I failed to clean from my scanner before completing this scan. They are pretty bad this time of year and 100's get through the insect screens!
RICHMOND FC PREMIERS 2017, 2019 03 Dec 2017 12:27:23am
re: Bates Numbering to Steiner
No, its a PDF numbering system which enables custom numbering. It only seems to be available in non freeware Adobe. I do the numbering of my files at work as I only have freeware Adobe on my home computer.
The prefixes I use are from ISO 3166 for the country codes - the year comes from the last 3 digits of the Steiner file year and then I use the auto page numbering (3 digit) and of course making sure I delete the copyright page if it exists.
If a country no longer exists and is not in ISO 3166 I customise the country prefix as was the case for many of the Vietnam files.
I will use the numbering system for my scans when I get around to opening up a web page.
"so I understand, Bates is for the users' convenience and NOT for a commonly understood system, right?
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Right - Basically, it's to identify each page of a collection of documents with a unique ID number, starting with 1 and going on indefinitely. Bates was the inventor of a sequential number stamping gadget years ago. During discovery phase of a court case, the docs handed back and forth between the parties are all Bates numbered. That's the only area I'd seen Bates numbers used. That way, the opposing lawyers could simply refer to a Bates number in their negotiations instead of having to spell out the complete (and possibly confusing) ID of a page in a pile of documents.