Re: pdf page counting

On 12/22/2024 2:52 PM, legg wrote:

Anyone have any idea how to publish a pdf so that it recognizes
a frontispiece with roman numeral pagination?

If your page numbering is *within* the document (e.g., a header of your
own creation), then it is entirely up to you what form it takes, where it
is placed, when it appears, etc. (e.g., often the first page of a chapter
has no visible page number)

The body page one currently recognized as page 14.

The PDF format only deals with ordinality when it comes to page numbers.

Annoying.

Use the tool upstream of your PDF distiller to impose whatever numbering
scheme you want.  E.g., I never label the first page of a document,
use "lowercase" roman numerals for front matter, <chapter>-<page> for
body pages (and <chapter>-<figure> as well as <chapter>-<table> for
their corresponding materials) and INDEX-<page> for the index.
Set your PDF to open with thumbnail views visible and the viewer can
usually quickly find the page of interest from them.
[Though I've never made a document of more than ~600 pages so it's easy
to find thumbnails of chapter starts and offset from there]