GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 438734
page numbering is confusing
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:13:09 UTC
The bug has been described on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/114462 "Binary package hint: evince For example, when printing this book: www.phptr.com/content/images/0131473816/downloads/0131473816_book.pdf File -> Print... -> {any printer, including "Print to File"} -> Print Pages/Range: 433-436 results in pages 397-400. With smaller PDF's printing works as should." That happens because the page index is starting is i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, etc. Any reason the number of pages and the selected one are just a count of the number of pages which would be easier to use?
"Any reason the number of pages and the selected one are just a count of the number of pages which would be easier to use?" Not only "easier to use". This also will make possible printing pages [i, ii, ...] as "Print range".
I'm very sorry for my previous message. This is caused by my poor English and that I entangled in files, which I printed into the PDF. Printing i, ii, ... pages works fine with page range 1-... I think this topic can be closed.
No problem, thanks *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 330277 ***
This way to count is confusing, reopening the bug
Needs to be filed as a RFE on the gtk print dialogue, then.
that's not the print dialogue which is confusing, "1" in the toolbar should go to the first page of the document
No, "1" in toolbar should go to the page labelled as "1" in the document, as it does now. The gtk print dialogue's page number selector should be extended to allow for this.
having to know to know that the page 10 is labelled "X" to jump to it is not really friendly, I think entering a number should move to the corresponding page in the document
If you have page with label 10 we move to that page otherwise we move to page number 10. So I hope it's acceptable.
the labeling is not an intuitive way to browse a document, usually when an user enter "10" to the range widget that's to go to the page 10 of the document
(In reply to comment #10) > the labeling is not an intuitive way to browse a document, usually when an user > enter "10" to the range widget that's to go to the page 10 of the document Exactly. The user reads the document, where is says "see page 36 for more information", and enters "36" into the entry, and expects to go to that page, not to page 21 just because there have been some pages before page "1" in the document.
I would like to add that an additional complication is the fact that some documents have pages for which no label is provided (a cover page and an empty page at the beginning of a book for instance) making it impossible to print (or access via the page number text entry box). The book available here is an example of that http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html Having said that, Christian's point of being able to quickly access a given reference page and actually end up on the correct page FAR outweighs the drawback of not being able to quick-access or print-range some other pages. I was quite amazed (and thankful!) when this functionality was first introduced as it always annoyed me that I had to manually "search around" for the right page in the PDF for a given page number in the text. Nevertheless, IMHO the print ranges should be based on the labelling, rather than the PDF pages, to be consistent. I'm going to take a look at how the callback for the print dialog creates the ranges array. Could someone point me to the array which relates PDF pages with labels?
*** Bug 621641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 583632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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