Hyperref and repeated page numbers
The book class (and its friends and relations) automatically
changes the display of page numbers in the frontmatter of the document
to lower-case roman. This is fine for human readers, but it confuses
hyperref since there are pages which seem (to
hyperref) to have the same page number. Fortunately, there are
configuration options to make hyperref “do the right
thing”.
The two options in question are:
plainpages=false- Make page anchors using the
formatted form of the page number. With this option,
hyperref writes different anchors for pages ‘ii’ and ‘2’.
(If the option is set ‘
true’ — the default —
hyperref writes page anchors as the arabic form of the
absolute page number, rather than the formatted form.)
pdfpagelabels- Set PDF page labels; i.e.,
write the value of
\thepage to the PDF file so that
Acrobat Reader can display the page number as (say) ‘ii (4
of 40)’ rather than simply ‘4 of 40’.
The two should be used whenever page numbering is not just
‘1..n’; they may be used independently, but usually are not.
The recipe isn’t perfect: it relies on \thepage being different
for every page in the document. A common problem arises when there is
an unnumbered title page, after which page numbers are reset: the
PDFTeX warning of “duplicate destinations”
will happen in this case, regardless of the options.
- hyperref.sty
- macros/latex/contrib/hyperref (or browse the directory)
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdfpagelabels