Re: pdf page counting

legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:16 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
 

In article <vka38r$qekf$1@dont-email.me>,
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?

 
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]
 

 
adobe is a MS kind of tool.
Professionals use TeX.
I generated the ciforth documentation with texinfo.
In ghostview the two cover pages appear as 1 2 in the page column,
The body is on the third page with a page number 1.
The content are on the end, showing negative numbers in the page column,
and are marked I ,, XII .
 
Groetjes Albert

 
I've heard TeX pushed in tech forums, but tech publishers and
regulators specify the format for submissions, and it ain't TeX.
 
RL
 

Depends on the outfit.

I’ve submitted two book manuscripts in LaTeX, no worries. Physics papers
are usually done in TeX as well.

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