Yes, please to this. A actually didn't know this feature was even in InDesign. I've always wanted it! It is the type of feature I've wanted for so long and eventually gave up thinking about. When I stumbled on to it, today, I was so excited. The first thing that came to mind was "page numbering... here we go". I was so disappointed when the page numbers were just skipped at export! Thus, I ran to the internet, and this thread.

It would be tremendously helpful, and powerful, if page numbers ignored hidden pages at export, appearing sequentially.

As much as I could use this feature, I can't because it's ultimately not helpful in its current state at.

I feel that when a page is hidden, it should lose it's actual page number assignment. On the page itself, the page number/variable could appear as a placeholder character, similar to its behavior on a parent page. In the pages panel, another indicator would need to appear or have some affect there as well. Perhaps a placeholder text, or simply, the word "hidden" in italics, in place of the page number.

yes please. and make it way more obvious when a page is hidden.

Yes, numbering skips hidden pages is a good thing, but inserting a ‘last page number’ text variable doesn't renumber the variable. That's a shame. For example, a 40-page document, pages 5 to 10 are hidden, the document numbering should indicate 1/35 but it remains at 1/40. Can you rectify this problem?

Just been stung on this, with a document that went to print. Had a spread that had two versions of one spread, and had hidden one.