Re: PDF with a TOC and Logical Page Numbers

[Debbie Pavlak <dpavlak@EXCITE.COM>]

Ray, 
 
Thanks, you answered my question.  If this is how PDF files work, I guess this behavior is acceptable.  I just didn't want to introduce new reports for our users with an interface that was confusing.  But, I guess it can't be helped. 
 
I assumed that if the TOC had an entry that said it was on page 16, you could use the Acrobat widget at the bottom of the page to go to page 16.  In reality, page 16 would become 16 + #pages taken up by TOC. 
 
Thanks again. 
 
(Sorry about the html tags.  Since Excite was taken over, I get them in all my email!) 
 
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:59:47 -0500  
From: Ray Ontko

Subject: Re: PDF with a TOC and Logical Page Numbers

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


Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:58:32 -0500
From: Debbie Pavlak
Subject: Re: PDF with a TOC and Logical Page Numbers

Hi,
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.

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?

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.

We are using SQR v6.2 on Unix.

Thanks

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