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Subject: Re: pdf page counting
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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
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