Re: [evince] page numbers

[Jason Crain <jason aquaticape us>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 03:29:00PM +0000, mtsio wrote:
> In some documents (e.g http://www.gnu.org/doc/fsfs3-hardcover.pdf) page
> numbers are not in accordance to actual pages of the documents. evince
> displays a counter from the start but some books don't start with page 1
> but with roman letters or they don't count pages as the title, praise, etc.
>
> Is possible to display the actual page number by displaying the text
> itself? (At least for documents that the text is available.)

Evince already displays page labels; it can show i, ii, iii, iv in place
of the page numbers, but for it to work it needs to be supported by the
PDF.  The PDF needs to specify that certain page numbers should be shown
in roman numerals or arabic numbers and it looks like this PDF isn't
doing that.