How can we change the PDF display page number?

Question

Generally every PDF shows "1" when we open it on Acrobat but I want to change from "1" to "i" or "A"

Paul Montgomery · Accepted Answer

Hi Shahnawaz,

I think that what you want to adjust within the PDF are referred to as 'page labels'.

I believe I had a similar requirement some time ago and at that time posted a solution to the User Group. I'll paste it in below in case it may of use to you.

cheers,

Paul
Letterpart Ltd

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Subject = PDFs - adjusting page number displayed in Reader status bar

If anyone is interested here are the details of an alternative way I found of automatically adding page labels to an XPP generated PDF file.

1. added a frill block to every Page Layout, even those which don't have a printed folio. Each of those frill blocks call a macro called <pdfPageLabel>

2. In the XX macro spec set up the pdfPageLabel macro to save the formatted page number into a text register ready for use by XyPerl:
<px;247><ri;%p4;%fmt4><pa></Pb;p;pdfUtils.pl;pdfSubs::pageLabel()>

3. Set up a XyPerl program called pdfUtils.pl to output a PDF XyMacro that would in turn issue a pdfmark command to create a page label for the current page:

use strict;
use warnings;
use XPPcompo;

package pdfSubs;

## ======================================================
sub pageLabel {
## ======================================================
my $X = XPPcompo->new();
my $label = $X->get_text(247,'d');
print "<:pdfs;GEN;[ /Label (".$label.") /PAGELABEL pdfmark><:pdfe;GEN>";
} # end sub

1;

In my test job I had 512 pages including 54 pages of prelims. The page information displayed in the status bar went from:

i (1 of 512) through to liv (54 of 512)

and then

1 (55 of 512) through to 458 (512 of 512)

I did discover a few quirks about these page labels along the way.

For the 45th prelim page, where I had assigned the label "xlv", any Reader prior to version 8 would display that roman number as "vl".

This odd display of roman numbers was consistent in the range 45-49.

The odd conversion seems to have been corrected in Reader v8.

Another strange thing was that whether "xlv" or "vl" was displayed on the status bar I could always type in either number and go to the correct page.

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How can we change the PDF display page number?

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