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Hopefully this will make it back top the list,.... Good call responding to the list
I believe that you cannot have a view cursor unless you have a display. Some work was done to improve things like maybe it will work if you load the document and then hide it.... But that is a long shot. Off hand I don't think that you can understand much related to position such add page number without a view. All of the other cursors so not provide this information.
After saying that... I expect that PDF export needs a way to understand page numbers and it sounds like you can do that without a view... So perhaps I am mistaken. My best guess is that it only matters of page numbers are displayed in the document and that uses field which should have a display value stored but not updated without the view.
Not sure is this helps...