[Okular-devel] [Bug 271755] New: page labels are broken

[Evert Mouw]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271755

           Summary: page labels are broken
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.12.1
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: post at evert.net


Version:           0.12.1 (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

Full article with screenshots:
http://techmonks.net/pdf-support-for-multiple-page-numbering-styles

You want your book to use Roman numbers for the first few pages, and Indian
(often called “Arabic”, although the Indians invented them) numerals for the
rest of your book? PDF supports multiple page numbering styles, even in the
same document. This was added since PDF version 1.3, and can be found in the
1.7 specification under “12.4.2 Page Labels”.

    Each page in a PDF document shall be identified by an integer page index
that expresses the page’s relative position within the document. In addition, a
document may optionally define page labels (PDF 1.3) to identify each page
visually on the screen or in print. Page labels and page indices need not
coincide: the indices shall be fixed, running consecutively through the
document starting from 0 for the first page, but the labels may be specified in
any way that is appropriate for the particular document.

Unfortunately, not all PDF readers follow the specs. I have tried a few common
readers under Windows, all of them recently updated. Acrobat Reader X and Nitro
PDF Reader 1.4 (beta) do great. Sumatra 1.5 and PDF-Xchange_2.5 fail miserably.

Linux applications show the same variety. I used ISO images from the latest
Fedora 15 distribution. Evince 2.91, the default PDF viewer when using Gnome,
did great. But for KDE, Okular 0.12.1 failed badly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open a PDF that contains different page numbering symbols (page label ranges).

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