On 02/23/2016 11:07 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
Just speculating, could one distribute a PDF that would be like a book with many parts? I know that Hans is not a fan of part, but I wonder how this is handled? I doubt that any viewers handle prefixed page numbers properly. I just tried looking at a document were pagenumbers are reset way=bychapter and evince at least starts each chapter with a page number=1 in its navigation bar.
How would readers (people) deal with a PDF structured as: Part I - print/A4 Part II - print/letter Part III - screen ?
Well, I don’t dare to post such a PDF document on the net. Most people won’t be able to even know how to handle that in years. And they probably don’t have to. As a matter of fact, thanks to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Print_Options, I only have to press Ctrl+P and Enter using Acrobat > 9. In all copyshops, I have to say: please, don’t touch page scaling when is set to None. And to avoid a too rational (or too rude) reasoning, I show them the Advanced tab in the document properties from Acrobat (Ctrl+D [https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/209434/12230087/1167cab0-b84e-11e..., sorry it’s in German]). Then I also explain that this is read from the document and that it won’t change the default from Adobe. If they do that for a living, I guess that your proposal would be too complex for most of the users. Of course, PDF experts will know how to handle that. But they are a minority. (I cannot consider myself an expert, because I don’t fully understand the PDF specification [I cannot code :-(].) Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk