Posted by kevinsima on Dec 28, 2019; 5:28pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Starting-PDF-pages-with-an-offset-tp7457p7459.html

One way I just found...

Add a 'declaration' of a counter like so, such that it doesn't show in the output.  Make it one less than the start page.  'define-steps' is not used:

:define-steps: {counter:steps:6}

Then in the style YAML, for example in the footer content use:

{counter:steps}

which will start at 7 in this case.