Page numbers don't match, for many years !
For many years I am forced to tell my colleagues "report page 59, PDF page 62." Please change the title pages to ii, iii, iv, v, so the pages will match! This has been a problem for years. Adobe Acrobat can clearly see the real page numbers on the document. They almost NEVER match. Can you please match the Adobe PDF page numbers to the document page numbers? This could eliminate so much confusion, it isn't even funny.
Kevin Amundsen
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Thanks for bringing this issue to our notice. Your valuable feedback helps us improving our product. We discussed about this particular issue and we do not have any plans to work on it in immediate future. However, we’ll have it in our radar and might revisit at an appropriate time in future.
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Clara M Merchant commented
When converting from a word doc to a pdf the pages numbers change. Why?
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Anonymous
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Happy new year
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Carl Alexander
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Mr. Forthoffer's solution works great for files that one can edit and save. However, it will not work for protected files which do not already have pages correctly numbered. It would be useful for Acrobat to OCR read and create on-the-fly temporary numbering for both the full product and the reader (similar to thumbnails).
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Kevin Amundsen
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I will be sure to do that for self-authored documents, thanks for telling me. Unfortunately it won't help when several people have downloaded the same mis-numbered document.
I'm not thinking of myself. There are millions of people reading these. The development effort spent to create a simple dialog that could *at least try* to match page numbers has the potential to help so many people. When creating a .pdf from Microsoft Word, it doesn't even try.
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David Forthoffer
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Having Acrobat attempt to do some kind of OCR scan or document scan to figure out appropriate page numbers may be easy in some cases but obviously will be hard in other cases seems like a huge waste of development effort.
Why not just fix it yourself, by using Organize Pages to:
1) Select the first three pages.
2) Select the Page Labels option.
3) Select style "i, ii, iii" starting at 1.
4) Select the remaining pages
5) Select the Page Lagels option.
4) Select style "1, 2, 3" starting at 1.That should give you what you want. It has for me.
