Is it possible to start the page numbering at a different number than 1? I am formatting articles, which need to be available as seperate pdf's, but the page numbering between articles needs to continue. Also the first article page number needs to be continuing from last months end number...

Try applying "counter-reset: page 83" to the beginning of your document.

I remember reading this many years ago, and thinking: this should have an example... since I am re-reading it (obviously it tops the search results in Google), I will post that example.

The easiest way is via CSS.

body {
    font-family: Roboto;
    font-size: 10pt;
    counter-reset: page 6;
}