Documents can be broken into sections using the SetSectionStart method of the Document class. Breaking a document into sections has several benefits:

You can use the section numbering options of the Page Numbering Label Page Element.
You can use section templates to apply Page Elements to all pages in a section.
You can control the page labels that are displayed in a PDF viewer.

Each section can have a numbering style specified. See the NumberingStyle enumeration for a list of supported numbering styles. If no numbering style is specified, numeric numbering is used. The section's numbering style affects the page labels in Acrobat and is the default numbering style used by the page numbering label page element.

The following example shows how to break a document into sections.

[ASP - VBScript]
<!-- METADATA TYPE="typelib" UUID="{DF9225FE-94A4-490D-8CAD-E8366CE621D3}"-->
<%
    Dim MyDocument
    Set MyDocument = Server.CreateObject( "DynamicPDF.Document" )
    ' Create a template object and add a page numbering label
    Dim MyTemplate
    Dim MyPageNumLabel
    Set MyTemplate = MyDocument.SetTemplate
    Set MyPageNumLabel = MyTemplate.AddPageNumberingLabel( "%%SP%% of %%ST%%", 0, 680, 512, 12 )
    MyPageNumLabel.Font = DPDF_Font_Helvetica
    MyPageNumLabel.FontSize = 12
    MyPageNumLabel.Align = DPDF_Align_Center
    ' Begin the first section
    Dim MySection
    Set MySection = MyDocument.SetSectionStart
    MySection.NumberingStyle = DPDF_NumberingStyle_RomanLowerCase
    ' Add two pages
    MyDocument.AddPage()  'Page 1
    MyDocument.AddPage()  'Page 2
    ' Begin the second section
    Dim MySectionOne
    Set MySectionOne = MyDocument.SetSectionStart
    Dim MyTemplateOne
    Dim MyPageNumberSection
    Set MyTemplateOne = MySection.SetTemplate
    Set MyPageNumberSection = MyTemplateOne.AddPageNumberingLabel( "%%SP%% of %%ST%%", 0, 60, 512, 12 )
    MyPageNumberSection.Font = DPDF_Font_Helvetica
    MyPageNumberSection.FontSize = 12
    MyPageNumberSection.Align = DPDF_Align_Center
    ' Add three pages
    MyDocument.AddPage()  'Page 3
    MyDocument.AddPage()  'Page 4
    MyDocument.AddPage()  'Page 5
    ' Begin the third section specifying a section prefix
    Dim MySectionTwo
    Set MySectionTwo = MyDocument.SetSectionStart
    MySectionTwo.NumberingStyle = DPDF_NumberingStyle_RomanLowerCase
    MySectionTwo.Prefix = "Appendix A - "
    ' Add two pages
    MyDocument.AddPage()  'Page 6
    MyDocument.AddPage()  'Page 7
    ' Draw the PDF
    MyDocument.DrawToWeb True
    Set MyDocument = Nothing
%>

Document Sectioning

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