PDF Pagination - PDF page numbers vs Document page numbers

[tlewis]

At my company, we've had some requests to get the PDF page numbers to align with the document page numbers. Our current page numbering scheme for print output is to have the TOC be numbered with roman numerals and then to restart the numbering with decimal numerals. While this looks fine for our printed output, it has the side-effect of throwing off the numbering on the pages in the document and the page numbers in Adobe Acrobat, so that while the document page number might be 34, the pdf page number for the same page might be 44.

Adobe Acrobat Pro makes it easy enough to renumber the pages after we build the PDFs with Flare, but is there a way within Flare to configure the PDF page numbers to align with the document page numbers?

[atomdocs]

I think the simplest way would be not to restart numbering after the TOC, but to continue the numbering sequence. You can start numbering with roman (for frontmatter) and then switch to decimal for your main content while maintaining the numbering sequence. It would mean that the first page of content after the TOC is no longer page 1, but something like page 10 instead. For me, that isn't an issue, that's how I do my own projects. Is that acceptable for your docs?

[ruthhoward]

any news on this? we want to do the same thing - have the PDF document page numbering start on Page 1 of the content (after the cover page, copyright and TOC)