RE: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

voxwoman wrote:
 
> At one point, the books we produced had consecutive numbers that did
not
> map
> one-to-one with the PDF page number precisely because the cover and
"front
> matter" was unnumbered, and the TOC started on page 1 (print) or page
3
> (PDF) (this was also an issue some years ago when we first started
> publishing in PDF). This is hugely problematic with users (reviewers
and
> clients - not actual users of the product, since we never get feeback
from
> them) because some of them will reference the PDF page number and some
will
> reference the printed page number. The only way we (the doc
department)
> could reach consensus about how to avoid that problem was to go back
to
> chapter numbering, so we could tell the difference between the PDF
page
> number and the printed page number.

Making the printed and PDF numbering match is quite simple in Acrobat
(at least since v.6). Look up "renumber pages" in the help. 

If you're using FrameMaker, get the PageLabeler plugin from Rick Quatro
(frameexpert.com), which transfers the FM page numbering to the PDF for
you. 

HTH!


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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