Comments on: Book Panel Shows Wrong Page Number: Fixed!

By: London Designer

London Designer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:02:53 +0000

Thank you!!! I thought I was going insane, this has never happened before and ‘ve been using the Book feature for years. Obviously a CS5.5 bug as this is the first book I’ve done in this version. Again, thank you

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:39:24 +0000

THANK YOU! I had this exact problem!

By: Liz Siverts

Liz Siverts — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:20:08 +0000

THANK YOU! After hours of frustration, this worked! I really appreciate you taking the time to post this… you have made my day!

By: Jacob Grant

Jacob Grant — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:43:26 +0000

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! This problem has been infuriating me all week! I don’t know even know how the preferences setting got changed in the first place. Just one day, bang, it was all screwed up. Anyway, it’s working fine now. Thank you!

By: Jttraverse

Jttraverse — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:03:22 +0000

I had posted the question in a note of my own a few days ago, and got the answer from David to check the “absolute numbering” option. I found that my setting was on “section numbering” after he referred me to this earlier posting, and when I switched to absolute it fixed my problem–at least for that book.

I’ve just not opened a second copy of the same book, and found that it seems to have section numbering going in it again. But my prefs are still set to ‘absolute’!! So I rechecked everything, force the it to update numbering, and in this case even though I have “absolute numbering” checked in my preferences, the @#$% thing doesn’t want to switch back to absolute page numbers in this copy of the book. Good grief…back to pounding the wall while I look for a fix.
-JT

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:59:09 +0000

I’d just like to add my thanks. It sorted out my problem, like you, after an hour of trying to work out what was wrong! Thanks for the effort of posting it.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:05:41 +0000

I am having a similar issue and can’t find help anywhere. I have a book with 5 different chapters. The first chapter should be numbered with roman numerals with the next chapter starting with page 1. Each preceding chapter’s pages follow chapter 1. Everything is great until from the book I try to export to PDF. When the file opens in PDF, Chapter 1 says it starts with page 1 but the numbers listed in ‘next page’ section of the pdf says ‘page iv (4 of 20)’ when it should be ‘page 1 (4 of 20).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

By: hildy

hildy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:16:35 +0000

You are a LIFESAVER! I encountered this problem with a new book, so somehow my preferences had gotten changed to absolute numbers. But I couldn’t remember how I had overcome this problem previously. I did check preferences and CLEARLY READ that the specification affected only the pages panel! So I didn’t bother changing it to section numbering. The malicious programmer who decided that this preference should also affect books failed to tell the tech writer clearly. (So what else is new?)

Thank you for taking the time to post the fix. I’d still be looking otherwise.

By: ant barker

ant barker — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:31:19 +0000

I read your “pounding the wall in frustration” comment and smiled. Never a truer phase so well put. Mine was 2 hours of frustration before I resulted in a search for people sharing the same problem!

Thanks David, I’d never have thought of looking in the preferences. Life saver.

By: Olaf Nelson

Olaf Nelson — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:31:01 +0000

Twice in the last couple years I’ve had this problem. The first time I spent a day on it before getting the answer on some ID forum somewhere. The second time it only took a few hours of frustration before remembering what I was told the first time it happened: check the absolute page numbering thing. Makes me feel less stupid when I hear that even people with recognized expertise bang their heads against this one for a while before solving it.