Problem printing a pdf

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The pdf has been set up so the first 4 pages have no page numbers. The pages are all numbered. The thumbnails coincide with the page numbers on the pages. When I print a specific page number, it prints 4 pages before. How do I correct this massive error short of renumbering all the pages beginning with the cover page. Help!

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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Relabel your pages in Acrobat.

e.g.

in my example, I've renamed the cover and inside cover as i and ii, so that page 1 is the start of the main text. The Acrobat print page range honours these new numbers.

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try67

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Unfortunately, Adobe decided to use the page labels by default when printing, extracting, etc.

However, someone recently discovered a neat workaround for this issue. If you put the numbers in parentheses they are treated as the physical page numbers. So enter as the page range "(1)-(4)" (without the quotes), and it will print the first four pages of the file, no matter what they are numbered as.

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defaulthdotyvkrjwnuAuthor

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Thanks for this! I tried to add parentheses to print but the printer wouldn't take them. There is surely something I'm missing. Let me know if you have any other thoughts.

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