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Diifferent page numbering formats in a document are not converted

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2010-02-03 03:12:15
had3s
Registered: Feb 3 2010
Posts: 8
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Hello everybody! Please I need some help.

I have a .doc file made in Word 2003 which has different page numbering styles.

For example the introduction pages are numbered with roman numbers: I II II IV, etc. Some special pages in the document are numbered with letters: A, B ,C, etc and the rest with normal arabic numbers.

All the numbering are in the footers and done using the "Page Numbers" option of Word or using labels { PAGE }.

I want to keep this numbering scheme in the PDF exactly as it is in the Word document, but when I convert it to PDF the status bar in Acrobat reads the pages simply from 1 to 242.

I have tried with different options, but nothing.

How do I force to keep the original page numbering in the PDF conversion?

System Info: WinXP + Word 2003 + Adobe Standard 8.1

Thank you very much in advance.

Pablo.

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2010-02-03 06:33:19
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You have to renumber the navigation displayed value in Acrobat. You need to open the 'Thumbnail' view panel, move your mouse over any thumb mail, right click the mouse, and then select the 'Number Pages' option. In Acrobat's help, look under 'numbering, pages, renumber pages' for more information.

George Kaiser

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2010-02-03 06:55:39
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had3s
Registered: Feb 3 2010
Posts: 8
Ok.
I found the option in Adobe Standard and now I can re-number the pages correctly directly in the PDF file with any format I desire.

Thank you very much gkaiseril and also to the forum.

Regards,

Pablo.
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2010-04-02 09:13:18
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hwallen
Registered: Apr 2 2010
Posts: 1
I am working with a merged pdf and it is the second part of a group that I want to have continuous sequestial numbering. I want this pdf to start with page number 1461. I have those numbers sequestially on the thumbnails, but how do I get the on the document? I separately tried to do this on a footer, but can't get it to label them sequentially, i.e. all the pages have page "1461" on them. What an I doing wrong?
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2010-04-03 19:26:49
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daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Using Acrobat Pro the Add or Update Header and Footer dialog boxes permit setting a page number and date format.
Use "Page Number and Date Format..." -- it is center right region of the dialog box.
The associated dialog box ("Page Number and Date Format") provides many date formats which are available in a drop-down menu next the "Date Format".

Five choices are available in the drop-down menu for "Page Number Format"
(1 | 1 of n | 1/n | Page 1 | Page 1 of n).

The third selection is the "Start Page Number"

Before migrating the PDF that is to start at "1461" into another PDF use Add or Update Header and Footer to configure the page number format and to set start page number at "1461".

Once this is done, place the mouse cursor into the Header or Footer region (left, center, right) of choice and click.
Next, click on the "Insert Page Number" button.
You will see an entry in the header/footer region you selected.
If the page number in the selected format is not readily seen use the Margin setting adjustments (upper right corner) to move the entry to a visible location.

If you set this up in a 97 page PDF you would have staged an entry the starts at 1461 and ends at 1567 (in the selected page format).
The Preview permits selecting a Preview Page. Entering values for the PDF's page range will let you see what is on each page.

Now, click on the OK button.
The page format and the start value for PDF logical page 1 will be placed.
This PDF's header / footer (which ever was picked) will show the page format selected and will show the sequential page numbers starting at "1461".

Insert this PDF at the end of the first PDF of your merged PDF set.

Be well...

Be well...

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