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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label pdfpagelabels</title>
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<h3><i>Hyperref</i> and repeated page numbers</h3>
<p/>The <i>book</i> 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
<i>hyperref</i> since there are pages which seem (to
<i>hyperref</i>) to have the same page number.  Fortunately, there are
configuration options to make <i>hyperref</i> &ldquo;do the right
thing&rdquo;.
<p/>The two options in question are:
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<dt><code>plainpages=false</code><dd> Make page anchors using the
  formatted form of the page number.  With this option,
  <i>hyperref</i> writes different anchors for pages &lsquo;ii&rsquo; and &lsquo;2&rsquo;.
  (If the option is set &lsquo;<code>true</code>&rsquo; &mdash; the default &mdash;
  <i>hyperref</i> writes page anchors as the arabic form of the
  absolute page number, rather than the formatted form.)
<dt><code>pdfpagelabels</code><dd> Set PDF page labels; i.e.,
  write the value of <code>\</code><code>thepage</code> to the PDF file so that
  <i>Acrobat Reader</i> can display the page number as (say) &lsquo;ii (4
  of 40)&rsquo; rather than simply &lsquo;4 of 40&rsquo;.
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The two should be used whenever page numbering is not just
&lsquo;1<code>..</code>n&rsquo;; they may be used independently, but usually are not.
<p/>The recipe isn&rsquo;t perfect: it relies on <code>\</code><code>thepage</code> 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 &ldquo;<a href="FAQ-hyperdupdest.html">duplicate destinations</a>&rdquo;
will happen in this case, regardless of the options.
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<dt><tt><i>hyperref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyperref</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdfpagelabels">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdfpagelabels</a>
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