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Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have
by throw0101a 5y ago
Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file.
Never quite sure what reference.
- pwr-electronics 5y agoMaybe pdf numbers are sightly annoying in the modern age of writing.
- teraflop 5y agoA well-prepared PDF can include metadata about each page, so that reader software will be able to display the "logical" page number in addition to the actual numerical index. E.g. a page in the prologue of a book might show up as "xvii (19 of 150)".
- throwawayboise 5y agoThis is important because if you want to print a subset of pages, you have to specific the actual numerical page numbers in the print dialog, which may not be the same as the page number on the page.
- arkitaip 5y agoThis really is annoying. Maybe the solution is a smarter PDF reader that can detect the printed page numbers and use that for its own numbering?
- revolvingocelot 5y agoEspecially once the PDFs inevitably include scans of Something Else, or are constituted from multiple concatenated already-paginated extant documents.