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In its infinite wisdom, Cisco has up format our pages as approx 7x9, but
since everything is distributed electronically, people print our pdfs
however they want. I suspect, but I can't prove, that almost everyone prints
with "fit to page" turned on, which probably makes the whole thing more
legible, as we use a small font size for the body text.
To address the difference between roman-numbered front matter/chapter-page
numbered body text in the printed version and continuous page numbering in
the print version, I dug out the following from my "tools" folder, saved
from the techwr-l archives:
----- Original Message -----
> Hello;
>
> Does anyone know how to change the page #'ing in PDF files?
>
> We have books that use roman numerals for the contents, preface, etc., and
> then start again at page 1 for the chapters. The problem is that in pdf,
the
> page #'ing is continuous. Chapter 1, page 1 is actually page 26 or
> something. Users get confused when they go to page 237 in the pdf file,
but
> it is actually page 211 in the book.
>
> We'd like to select chapter 1, page 1 in Arobat Exchange and restart the
> page numbering at 1 rather than 26.
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Rick Henkel provided the following answer:
Subject: Re: PDF page #'ing
In Acrobat 4.05, select Document | Number Pages. I'm sure there's something
similar in Acrobat Exchange if you look for it.
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