Re: pdf page counting

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:31:04 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

[Apologies if duplicate; apparently some issues with ES?]
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On 12/24/2024 6:51 AM, legg wrote:

The thing I'm working on now is 422 pages with a 5000 line index.
I'm not going through THAT, manually inserting links.

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I can (have) "fix" the page numbers that appear in teh PDF viewer
(at least Adobe's products; I don't use any of the "knock off" tools)
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But, adding hyperlinks is something that you would either have
to do manually or write a script (and hope for the best).
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When I build a document with an index (or other cross references),
I place markers in the text and the DTP tool uses these to determine
the final "rendering place" for the reference to place in the
index, etc.
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It similarly builds the hyperlinks for the PDF.
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Expecting a tool to do this /ex post factum/ (e.g., to a scanned/OCRed
image) might be wishful thinking.
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[When I scan documents, I don't even bother with the OCR as my goal
is simply to replace the paper document with an electronic version
having all the capabilities (content) and _limitations_ (e.g., no
automated search) of the original.  This makes it a LOT easier to
process paper!  (I've scanned over 100,000 sheets -- both sides -- of
such documents in the past year)]
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A preliminary draft ( there are already 40 pages updated for
the next draft) is available for comment and criticism.
At 100Meg ( but getting smaller) it may be a slow download.
Few will find the actual content of interest.
 
http://ve3ute.ca/prairie_gold/sample_241220.zip

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I made the changes that I mentioned, upthread, and posted a revised
copy at:
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<https://mega.nz/file/I75REDIA#RFxRfVNXa_jhw3jcyv2_UeTGJ1iRwlUDC4hHk6x15bc>
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(ignore the viewer and click on the DOWNLOAD button on the lower right)
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I've appended 3 screenshots to the document (you should remove them;
I just used the PDF as a convenient "package" to transport them)
showing how three "significant" pages appear in Acrobat:  note the
front cover appears as having a "blank" page LABEL -- yet appears
described as "(1 of...)" while page "I" shows the label "I" with
"(9 of ...)" and page "1" appears with the label "1" and "(15 of ...)"
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[Note that "..." is 3 pages longer than your original for the reason
mentioned above]
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I'd be more than happy to do this again -- for revisions of this
document or others.

That was the sort of Reader output that I had in mind.

I'll pay more attention to the features offered by my
pdf publishing utility, (pdf995) to see what results I
can get here.

If I can't wrestle it into shape, I may take you up on
your offer, just to get this out of my hair, after revisions.

I'd normally add or remove pages by printing partial portions,
then rejoining them. That doesn't appear to be practical
if 'sections' carry un-numbered or oddly-paginated groups.
0 seems particularly problematic.

How would an end-user print the copyright page, or dedication
page, if the select-page-to-print area of the gui offers
pages ' -425 ' ?

Many thanks.

RL