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February 9, 2020
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How to prevent PDF from displaying imported filenames instead of page numbers

  • February 9, 2020
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I'm using Acrobat Pro XI. Whenever I create a multipage PDF from a series of image files (by dragiing the image files into Acrobat), the resulting PDF displays the imported filenames in the page navigation toolbar, instead of displaying the pagenumbers.

 

How can I make it display the page numbers instead? I don't want everyone I send the PDF to to have to see the filename of all the TIFs I imported in the page navigation toolbar, which won't mean anything to them - I just want them to see the pagenumbers. To show you what I mean, in the following screen capture:

 

I want it to say "1" where it currently says: "Completed Generic referral form.tif".

 

Dave

 

 

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Bernd Alheit
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February 10, 2020

You can change the page labels in the pages navigation panel.

DaveRadoAuthor
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February 10, 2020

Hi Bernd_Alheit 

 

1) If I open the page navigation pane and right-click on each page thumbnail, and select "number pages", and delete the contents of the prefix field, which is where the page label seems to be stored, then instead of displaying the page numbers on the toolbar as follows, which is how they are displayed in normal PDF files:

 

... it instead displays them as follows, which looks awful:

 

2) If I then save and reopen the resulting file, it displays the page numbers as follows, which is a bit better, but is still not what I want - which is for the page numbers to displayed the way they are in a normal PDF:

 

3) If I then go back to the navigation pane, right-click on the first thumbnail, select Page Numbering and change the "Style" to "1, 2, 3", then it displays the page numbers as follows, which is a bit better still, but is still not what I want:

 

What I want is for the page numbers to displayed the way they are in a normal PDF, i.e. like this:

 

The only workaround I've found to this so far is to print the resulting file using the Adobe PDF driver - but that loses the OCR'd text, which is a pain - and it's a very inelagant workaround in any case. Is there no other way to get the page numbers in a PDF file that has been created from multiple scanned images to display as they do in an ordinary PDF, other than by printing the PDF to a new PDF using the Adobe PDF driver?

 

Dave

DaveRadoAuthor
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February 11, 2020

From where does you get the label "Completed Generic referral form.tif" ?


I explained that in my original post in this thread.