Re: [Tools-discuss] pages numbers in ToC in PDF

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Fri, 28 May 2021 00:13 UTC

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Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 02:12:54 +0200
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] pages numbers in ToC in PDF
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I tried hard to only provide factual, useful information in
this thread, but now you have teased me enough...

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:53:48PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> *I* didn't put the page numbers there :-)
> 
> 1) another other option is not to number the pages in the PDF :-)

For consistency we need to remove pagination from the PDF rendering and make 
the document one single page. PDF spec i think has no problem with it,
and a global News headline of "IETF crashes computers worldwide" 
would be well worth it.

> 2) a third option is to number the pages is an unusual base using a
>    non-arabic number system.

Braille.

Not sure how useful 1,000 engineers are that randomnly start learning
braille numbers from desparation, but it sure scores inclusiveness points.

> I'm just asking for consistency.
> 
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