Re: PDF Custom Page Numbering

[Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>>
>>  while reading through the PDF to ISO-9075-1 (SQL99), I noticed
>>> something I had never seen before in a PDF: the page numbers displayed
>>> by Acrobat matched exactly the ones in the document ... the beginning
>>> was even numbered with roman numbers and the actual content started
>>> again at "Page 1". From a quick research it seems that this
>>> functionality is in PDF since Acrobat 4 (that should be PDF 1.3,
>>> right?) and is most likely called "Custom Page Numbering". It would be
>>> amazing if ConTeXt/LuaTeX supports that too - especially if you
>>> produce documents for screen reading.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I don't have access to the PDF Specification currently
>>> to give you more info - so I don't even know for sure how that feature
>>> is officially called.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I hope that idea/suggestion/wish finds positive reactions ...
>>> and I somehow hope that it isn't actually too hard to implement :-)
>>>
>>
>> it's named "Page Labels" (never seen before, thanks for the pointer), in
>> the PDF Reference 5th ed. it's in section 8.3.1, the example 8.3 there
>> typed into \pdfcatalog{} works right away, so no luatex engine
>> modification needed.
>>
>
> IIRC, the hyperref package in LaTeX supports this. I do not know if there
> is a direct ConTeXt support.
>

Not direct, but ConTeXt CAN do this:
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/036947.html
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20081016.174838.bff55fc9.en.html


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> Aditya
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