Re: pdf page counting

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:19:05 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

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?

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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)
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The body page one currently recognized as page 14.

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

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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.
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Set your PDF to open with thumbnail views visible and the viewer can
usually quickly find the page of interest from them.
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[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]

I want the pdf reader to 'recognize' page numbers from the print,
even if I have to do it manually on a per-page basis.

The pdf document is intended as a replica of existing hard copy,
so those original numbers/roman numerals can't change.

RL