I wrote a short AppleScript solution that informs about the current document page as a pop-up dialog. This is for Pages v5+ only. I created and saved an Automator Application named CurrentPage to my Desktop. Providing that Pages is running, it will produce the dialog shown in subsequent Automator screen shot.
Double-click /Applications/Automator and choose New Document, Application, and Choose. Follow the Utilities > Run AppleScript (not Shell Script as shown), and drag Run AppleScript over into the larger window and drop it. Select all of its contents and remove them -- this is just boilerplate.
Copy and paste the following AppleScript into the now vacant Run AppleScript workflow window. Click the hammer, and File > Save... pick a name, and location to save the application where it is handy. Quit Automator.
Code:
-- P
-- Produce formatted dialog of document name, current page, and page count
-- Pages v5+ only. Works whether typing in document or scrolling pages.
-- VikingOSX, June 2014, Apple Support Community - Pages for Mac.
if not ApplicationIsRunning("Pages") then
display dialog "Pages must be running to use this utility."
return quit
end if
tell application "Pages"
activate
tell front document
set diagTitle to "Current Document Page"
set docName to (name as text)
set thePage to current page
set curPage to 0
set pageCnt to page count
set pnList to its page
repeat with ndx from 1 to count of pnList
if thePage is equal to item ndx of pnList then
set curPage to ndx
end if
end repeat
set vformat to "Document: " & tab & tab & docName & return ¬
& "Current Page: " & tab & curPage & return ¬
& "Total Pages: " & tab & tab & pageCnt
end tell
end tell
display dialog (vformat as text) giving up after 15 with title diagTitle
on ApplicationIsRunning(appName)
tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName)
return appNameIsRunning
end ApplicationIsRunning
