Bug#451018: evince: Page offset for broken PDFs

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 21:32 +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> some broken documents starts the numbering of pages on page six or
> thelike, i.e. all page numbers have an offset of six. Reading anywhere in
> the document a pagenumber you can't use it directly. You must add an
> offset of six. It would be nice when evince could do this.
> 
> After telling evince in a small dialog the offset is 6 pages (or maybe -3
> pages) it display right of the input field for the page number the
> offset. Then entering a number, evince jumps to the page (number +
> offset).

Hi,

Are you sure these documents are broken, and it's not just because
evince now uses page labels, as described by upstream:

        "Evince uses page labels when displaying pages and page numbers
        when printing, label and number may actually differ, for example
        if pages count starts from something like I, II or similar
        non-numbers."
        
These can be confusing in some circumstances; 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438734

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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