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Bookmark Page Numbers is not the same as document numbers

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2010-10-05 13:48:45
NickJr
Registered: Jan 21 2008
Posts: 21

I inserted two pages from another pdf file and created a bookmark. However when I look at the page numbers in the bookmark section, they do not correspond to the actual numbers displayed as I view the file. I went to the options for page numbering and selected the numbering correctly, still the page numbers are differnt than bookmark page numbers.. How do I fix that so the bookmark page numbers are the same as the document page numbers are.
Thank You for any help in this matter

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2010-10-05 14:59:28
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
Do the bookmarks work as expected?

If so, then you or someone may have changed the displayed page numbering. The displayed numbering allows for a number of ways to modify the displayed page number. This is done so the displayed page number matches the page number on the displayed page. But JavaScript still uses the actual page number of the page within the PDF and not the displayed page number. And if you were to write some JavaScript to goto a page, the value used for the page number in JavaScript is based on the 1st physical page starting at page 0 and not page 1.

George Kaiser

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2010-10-05 15:12:00
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NickJr
Registered: Jan 21 2008
Posts: 21
Bookmarks works fine but the page numbering of the bookmarks are not the same as the page numbers of the document in question. I would like to see the page numbers of the bookmarks the same as the page numbers in the document view.
thanks for your reply..
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2010-10-05 19:01:53
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
the text displayed in a bookmark is only a label, a dumb label that was typed in by the author of the pdf. the label has no inherent relationship with the target page of the bookmark. so, if the bookmark label reads "click to see page 10" it could point to actual page 10 or page 20 or any other page. if the author pointed the aforesaid bookmark to actual page 10 and later inserted a page, say before the first page of the document, then the aforsaid bookmark (labeled "page 10") will still point to the same page, which is now actual page 11. if you plan to insert or rearrange pages, you might want to label the bookmarks not with a number (like "click to see page 10") but with a meaningful text like "click to see chapter one". also, read the help section on "logical page numbers."
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