In my PDF copy of XSLT Quickly, by Bob DuCharme (Manning Publications Co.), the first pages are numbered i to xv ante the index on the bottom shows "xv (15/317)". The next page is the first of the first chapter, and the counter is restarted with arabic numerals. The bottom now shows "1 (16/317)". However, the book "XML and Java", by the same publisher, which numbers the pages the same way, does not show them nicely in the bottom window, and just shows the usual "24/298" for page 1. "Bitter Java", by Bruce A. Tate, has three differente page sequences, and thay all show correctly in the bottom window: last page is "G (373/373)". So, it _is_ feasable, although most people don't care to make the index display correctly. Unfortunately, sending you the book would, I think, infringe its copyright, as with the ISO standard Andreas cited (I have it too, and its index also works correctly). When Ctrl+N is pressed, you can enter "A", "1" or "i" and Acrobat moves to the correct page sequence. I wonder if it is possible to have two arabic or roman or alphavbetic sequences...
============================================= Marcelo Jaccoud Amaral Petrobrás (http://www.petrobras.com.br) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +55 21 2534-3485 fax: +55 21 2534-1809 ============================================= There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. Clay Leeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m> cc: Assunto: Re: Page numbers in PDF 08/05/2003 13:04 Favor responder a fop-user Andreas, In all of the PDF documents I've seen (mostly electronic manuals for programs for Adobe and others) I've always seen the number of pages work the way you describe (all pages counted together & requiring an offset). In fact, the window at the bottom of Acrobat shows the page number you're on out of the total. I've never seen otherwise, and would dearly love to be shown I'm wrong. Can you provide a URL to a PDF file that has this otherwise (an attachment might be a faux pas ;-p)? I just went through every PDF I have (including the ones from Adobe) and they all count the number of pages inclusively. There are no separate numbering systems when I do a Ctrl+N. Clay Andreas Wachowski wrote: > Hello, > > I have a docbook document converted to FO and to PDF via FOP (0.20.4). The > document contains two page number sequences. One for the title page and table > of contents in small roman numerals; another for the remainder of the > document in arabic numbers. So far so good. > > The resulting PDF however numbers the pages from first to last page in just > one sequence. In particular, when I (use Acrobat reader and) look at the > table of contents and would like to jump to e.g. page 5, I cannot type CTRL-N 5, > but instead I have to manually add the offset of the first pages (title page > etc.) to arrive at the correct page. > > I have seen at least one PDF document (the C++ ISO standard) in which this > problem was solved. CTRL-N displayed two sequences of page numbers, first the > roman, then the arabic ones - the PDF page numbers matched the page numbers > displayed in the document. > > > I would greatly appreciate if anyone can help me out on this topic. > > Many thanks, > > Andreas -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
