On 2/27/2018 7:47 PM, Christoph Reller wrote:

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:15:37 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 2/26/2018 8:02 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

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On 02/25/2018 10:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 2/25/2018 9:12 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

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[...] The print range for Acrobat is "3,6,9-11" when it should be "2,5,8-10" (the document only contains 10 pages).

is ok here (looking in the pdf file)

I have tested the file in Acrobat XI and since I got the same wrong page ranges, I asked to an Adobe engineer.

He confirmed that the spec is wrong. Page counting for /PrintPageRange should be zero-based and it shouldn’t start from one.

This is only one of many cases for which ISO-32000 is the spec and the Adobe Reader is the de-facto spec. Others affect annotations and rendering.

the pdf spec sometimes looks like a mixture between wishful thinking and reverese engineered spec (as there are some real weird constructs in there) anyway, i normally test pdf with an old acrobat X pro (i don't want to lock into some subscription and i don't really need a more modern version) and i preview / print pdf using sumatra pdf (printing houses often use pretty old versions anyway)

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Sorry for this. Could you correct the implementation? the usual pdf spec rubish ... no one uses it (although tex is often first), they it gets a bugged implementation and then the specs change ... one of the reasons why i don't bother too much in implementing the latest pdf gadgets ... i wasted too much time adapting to changed (interpretation of the) specs

Hans

(I don't officially have the latest spec as i refuse to pay for a pdf specification that could be distributed in pdf format.)

A small detail: The ISO specification for PDF 2.0 also defines the first page in /PrintPageRange to be page number 1 (not 0). :(

makes me wonder if there was a 0/1 bug in some adobe pdf generator that then defined the standard to have a bug instead -) Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------