Re: pdf page counting

On 24/12/2024 20:07, Don Y wrote:

On 12/24/2024 12:31 PM, Don Y wrote:

For folks thinking PDFs are just "electronic books", that's likely
an acceptable tradeoff.  OTOH, if you want to explain the difference
between the different speaking accents of New Yorkers, Bostonians,
Chicagoans, etc., it's much easier to embed three audio clips
and let the "reader" HEAR them instead of trying to describe them
textually.  Similarly, instead of publishing N different views of
a 3D object to give the reader an idea of how it is constructed,
it's much easier to embed a 3D model IN the document and let the
reader explore it in whatever manner HE deems appropriate.
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These are things that you can't do with paper books.

 Well, technically, you can distribute other *media* with a paper
book that addresses some of these issues.  E.g., I have a book
titled _Mouth Sounds_ that includes a (flimsy) "45" to be played
on a phonograph to "hear" the sounds described.  Others have
included CDs affixed to back covers, etc.
 

I'm not completely sure you are fully understanding what the OP wants. I think he has the page numbers showing correctly in the headers of all his pages but wants to have the reader itself know the page numbers he used in his headings so that he can tell the reader to go to page 17 and it goes to the page with "17" in the header and shows page 17 / whatever as it's status.
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Brian Gregory (in England).