Re: PDF with a TOC and Logical Page Numbers

[Amy Emge <emgeac@MUOHIO.EDU>]

Ray and others, here's the problem Debbie and I are trying to solve.

Let's say the TOC takes up the first five pages of the report (i, ii, iii,
iv, v) and the report body actually starts on page 6 but it's printed page
number is 1 (1, 2, 3...).

When I'm viewing the .pdf and I tell Acrobat to go to page 1, I want to go
to the page printed numbered 1 (the first page of the report), which is
actually page 6 because the TOC takes up 5 pages.

Outside of SQR, when you create a .pdf with a TOC, you can turn on "logical
page numbers" and achieve the above.  When you create a .pdf via SQR with a
TOC, this just doesn't work.

One of my colleagues did get this to work, but he's been busy on high
priority projects and can't help me for a while.  So this is possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Amy Emge
Applications Analyst
Miami University


At 02:59 PM 2/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Debbie,
>
>Which numbers are you talking about?  When I view a PDF file in
>Acrobat Reader, there is, for example, a "3 of 22" display in the
>status line at the bottom of the viewer window.  Is it that you
>want this number to show "iii of xvi" during one part of the document,
>and then "1 of 128" during a different part of the document, or
>something like that?
>
>I don't think this is possible.  In nearly every long Acrobat document
>I've seen, the current page number never matches the number at the
>bottom of the page.  This is always due to the un-numbered or
>roman-numbered pages that occur at the beginning of the document.
>
>Am I addressing your question, or am I totally off-base?
>
>Ray
>
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> > Hi, <br />
> > I found several posts regarding this problem in May 2001, but Amy said
> she never found a solution.  I also need to do this, so I thought I'd
> open the thread up again. <br />
> >  <br />
> > Has anyone come up with a way to create a pdf document with a table of
> contents where the page numbers in Acrobat match the page numbers on your
> report? <br />
> >  <br />
> > I tried the suggestion of using roman(#page-count) for the toc, but
> that didn't make a difference.  I've tried turning Logical page numbering
> off/on.  I don't know what else to try.  It isn't very user-friendly to
> give a TOC where the page number don't match Acrobat numbers. <br />
> >  <br />
> > We are using SQR v6.2 on Unix. <br />
> >  <br />
> > Thanks. <br />
> > <br />
> > <hr>
> >
>
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