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bozo128
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August 11, 2011
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Page navigation in Acrobat does not match page numbers in the document

  • August 11, 2011
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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.

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Mike Wickham
Inspiring
August 11, 2011

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

PageLabeler plugin:

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

Bob_Niland
Bob_Niland
Community Expert
August 11, 2011

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)

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bozo128Author
New Participant
August 11, 2011

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)"

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Van Kurtz
Inspiring
August 11, 2011

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

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