From: Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel@gmx.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: PDF Custom Page Numbering
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 23:27:48 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006092321130.5500@hahepc1.hahe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <huo75v$81c$1@dough.gmane.org>
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.
Regards, Hartmut
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-09 14:06 Andreas Schneider
2010-06-09 21:27 ` Hartmut Henkel [this message]
2010-06-10 4:35 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-06-10 6:38 ` Zhichu Chen
2010-06-10 11:05 ` Andreas Schneider
2010-06-10 8:30 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-10 9:32 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-06-10 11:35 ` Andreas Schneider
2010-06-10 11:04 ` Andreas Schneider
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