I think this is a great idea! I don’t know if you need them to be true page numbers, but it was easy to set one-to-one hundred on each page:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5oub64ec2zl1gx/one-to-one-hundred.idml?dl=0

(found a list online, created master page and a paragraph style using Keep Options->Start Paragraph on next page, copy/paste into page 1 text frame, and voilà 100 pages are made.)

I assumed Gunn meant 1.058mm (.0417 inches)

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From a commercial printing point of view, it does look like a cheap font problem, but I have one suggestion on your PDF export:

General->Standard->PDF/X-1a:2001

We find that x-1a solves a lot problems. Good luck.

David, for me, (CC 2014, Distiller X, OS X 10.9.5) this only works when the final PDF is 8.5×11. I tried changing the page size in Distiller to 11×17, no luck. That’s why I’m thinking it’s a PPD issue.

Thanks, A.A. I am not yet schooled in the ways of GREP.

Could be a formatting issue within the Word doc.

It could be a PostScript error. Have you tried printing the document or saving to PDF?

Some more troubleshooting you can try to isolate the problem:
-Save as a plain text file and import.
-Try importing 10 (for example) pages at a time, to a new InDesign document each time. If there’s a problem on page 34, etc. it will reveal itself.
-Try copying and pasting several pages at a time.
-Have someone with OS X try it. (I can try if you want)

Good Luck,
neeners