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I do it regularly using Acrobat 6 or 7, Quite Imposing Plus and PitStop. This is a great technique for short runs of tickets (less than 5000).
1. Create the ticket w/o numbers and impose it 8-up (or whatever the job requires). Then, make a PDF and call it background.pdf.
2. Create a new document in Acrobat (I believe this requires PitStop) that is the size of a single ticket and is as many pages as you need tickets.
3. Use the "Stick on Page Numbers" function in Quite Imposing to add your numbers. Repeat to add numbers to the stub. (If you have the new Quite Imposing 2, your numbers can have leading zeroes - just enter 0001 as the first number.)
4. Use the "Shuffle Pages for Imposing" function in Quite Imposing using the Single-Sided Cut Stacks scheme.
5. Use "N-Up Pages" in Quite Imposing to set the numbered pages multiple up.
6. Use Acrobat's "Add Watermark & Background" function to merge in the background.pdf you created in step 1.
It seems like a lot of steps, but it can be done very quickly once you get the hang of it. You can number 1,000 tickets in about 5 minutes on a fast machine.
Beware of large quantities as the time it takes for the "Shuffle Pages" function seems to increase exponentially.
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