how does one enable page numbers like in your sample pdfs?

[milkshakeuk]

see title

[milkshakeuk]

I figured it out

@page {
  size: A4;
  margin: 1.20cm;

  @bottom-center {
    content: "Page " counter(page) " of " counter(pages);
  }
}

[FlorianHeigl]

for others: the above snippet is from custom.css, not the pdf stylesheet. since it's defined for @page it only applies to pag(inat)ed media and as such you don't see it except on print. I found a reference to a 'smashing magazine' article: designing for print with css which helped me understand a bit.

@milkshakeuk did you manage to also use @top-center somehow? I'm completely at a loss trying to get a chapter title on every page.

[nbanyan]

@FlorianHeigl https://printcss.net/articles/page-margin-boxes has a lot of good info on print specific CSS and those location tags. In my attempts to use various HTML to PDF solutions I've found that some features like these may not work with some tools. It's possible that CSS features like these can work when using a browser's print dialog while being ignored by pypdf.