I am working with qweb reports in odoo 10 . Here is what i did
<odoo>
<template id="report_customer">
<t t-call="report.html_container">
<t t-set="data_report_margin_top" t-value="50"/>
<t t-foreach="range(5)" t-as="1">
<t t-foreach="docs" t-as="o">
<t t-call="report.internal_layout">
<div class="page example-css-class">
<h2>Report title</h2>
<p>This object's name is
<span t-field="o.full_name"/>
</p>
<ul class="list-inline">
<li>Page:</li>
<li><span class="page"/></li>
<li>/</li>
<li><span class="topage"/></li>
</ul>
</div>
</t>
</t>
</t>
</t>
</template>
</odoo>
and i also tried this
<odoo>
<template id="report_customer">
<t t-call="report.html_container">
<t t-set="data_report_margin_top" t-value="50"/>
<t t-foreach="range(5)" t-as="1">
<t t-foreach="docs" t-as="o">
<t t-call="report.internal_layout">
<div class="page example-css-class">
<h2>Report title</h2>
<p>This object's name is
<span t-field="o.full_name"/>
</p>
<div class="footer" style="text-align: center !important;">
Page <span class="page"/> of <span class="topage"/>
</div>
</div>
</t>
</t>
</t>
</t>
</template>
</odoo>
but in both cases i am not able to see page numbers. I also tried adding custom header and footer in separate templates but that also doesn't work.
you can call <t t-call="report.external_layout_footer" /> on your custom template right? or what is the actual problem, Whether the Page is printed on sheet? if not then it could be your css problem