Page navigation in Acrobat does not match page numbers in the document

[bozo128]

I have a document in both Framemaker format (server.book) and PDF (server.pdf).  When I view the pdf file in Adobe Acrobat, the page numbers appear correctly on the document itself, but up in the Page Navigation window within Acrobat the pages number doesn't match.

In the beginning of the book I have Title page, a Table of Contents, and a Preface that all use lower-case roman numerals.  However, when viewing this document via Acrobat, the Title pages show up as i, and ii, but then the Table of Contents and Preface show up as pages 1 - 8 instead of iii - x in the page navigation window.

I can't figure where this discrepancy is originating. 

Please help.

[Bob_Niland]

and what shows up in the Print pane?

On Acroread 7 for Unix, in the Print dialog,you get the ordinal numbers 1, 2 ... etc. regardless of actual page numbers, and any attempt to enter "i" or "ii" is collapsed to "1".

What reader or full Acro version and what platform?

And what PDF version are the PDFs? (in the unlikely event that matters)

[bozo128]

In the print pane, the current page shows up as "2" instead of "iv" as it should.

I'm using Adobe Acrobat Standard version 9.4.5

The PDF version is "1.6 (Acrobat 7.x)"

[Van Kurtz]

The behavior you describe is correct, and the way it should be. Acrobat has no way to know which bit of character string on each page is the page number. It just knows where a page starts and stops. It is an Acrobat issue, not a Frame or other application issue.

But you can fix this in Acrobat. After you create the PDF, open it in Acrobat (I do not believe you can do this in Reader. I have Pro, not Standard, so not really sure you can do it in standard). Show the thumbnails. I select each group of pages, such as all the pages in a chapter, right-click and select Number Pages. In the dialog, you can specify how the numbering should be. Typically you make it match what is showing on the PDF pages. Read the Acrobat help for the details.

Van

[bozo128]

Yes, that worked just like you said.

Thanks!!!

[Bob_Niland]

Acrobat has no way to know which bit of character string on each page is the page number.

The visible page number has never formed any part of Reader nav. as you point out, it couldn't.

Acrobat knows the Numbering Properties of the pages as created in Frame. It just doesn't display or honor them consistently, depending on Reader version.

I also use i, ii, iii, iv for pre-narrative material. The romans are displayed in the page number box of Acroread (this is AR7 on Unix). I can enter "ii" in the box, and go to that page. But the Print dialog is Ordinal only. Printing page ranges in AR7 is always off by 2 or 4 relative to the actual page numbers.

Acrobat Pro 9 (9.4.5, Win7-64) seems to be more consistent, and does show and accept real page numbers for Print.

[Mike Wickham]

You can also fix and control this from within FrameMaker with the

PageLabeler plugin:

http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/pagelabeler/index.htm