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

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Thu, 27 May 2021 18:51 UTC

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Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 20:50:57 +0200
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] pages numbers in ToC in PDF
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We had this discussion recurringly last year, and it seems that the lovers
of page numbers need to get together and write an RFC adopted by the community,
or else nothing will change. Would be an update to the <can-never-remember-thenumber>
RFC about the new RC posting format whose text is interpreted by the tools
team to say "no-page-numbers", not even in TOC of PDF.

Thats my understanding. If there is an easier way to get page numbers into TOCs
of PDF, that would be great.

Cheers
    Toerless

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:34:30AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> If the PDFs are paginated, why doesn't the Table of Contents in the PDF, have
> page numbers?  Yes, they are linked.
> But, that's useless if you actually dump it to tree-ware.
> 
> Consider, for instance, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8995.pdf
> 
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> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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