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You can do that with a text editor.

• metadata - How to change internal page numbers in the meta data of a PDF? - Super User

As the answer says, open a PDF file with a text editor, search /Catalog entry, and then append an entry named /PageLabels like this:

/PageLabels << /Nums [

0 << /P (cover) >> % labels 1st page with the string "cover"

1 << /S /r >> % numbers pages 2-6 in small roman numerals

6 << /S /D >> % numbers pages 7-x in decimal arabic numerals

]

>>

Note that the page indices (physical page numbers) begin with 0.

Of cource, you can do this automatically using scripting languages.

PDF Standards - Page Labels has detailed specification.

There's a tool called PDF Mod which is a free tool to rearrange the pages of a PDF.

It can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 10.10 and higher.

To install in Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04 :

To install Add the ppa ppa:pdfmod-team/ppa to your software sources (Here's how to do that) and install pdfmod from the software center

Adapted from : http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/edit-pdf-documents-in-linux-with-pdf.html

Good Luck :D

jPDF Tweak is an Open Source graphical utility that offers page numbering (the correct term is "page labeling") and many other beginner to advanced PDF editing features. It runs on Ubuntu and other operating systems.

The Documentation page provides step-by-step instructions.

Just found a pointer that it could be possible to use ghostscript for this, here: pdftk - Add and edit bookmarks to pdf - Unix and Linux - Stack Exchange #18600; it refers to links:

• [other] how to generate bookmarks via ghostscript/pdfwrite/pdfmark - Ubuntu Forums


• Ghostcript PDF Reference & Tips — Milan Kupcevic

However, the above deal with bookmarks - not with logical pagination. It turns out from pdfmarkReference.pdf, the needed "command" is '/Label' (or '/PAGELABEL') - and it further refers to PDFReference.pdf chapter 8.3.1 "Page Labels". Unfortunately, that chapter doesn't necessarrily explain how pdfmarks could be used with page labels - but this post does:

• [gs-bugs] [Bug 691889] pdfwrite with "/PAGELABEL pdfmark" operator does not work with multiple pages

The /PAGELABEL pdfmark does not have any /Page key, so one can set the
label for the ‘current’ page only (and, as a consequence, only for one
page at a time). Since you call it at the very beginning, it’s expected
to set a label for the 1st page and only for it.

Multiple /PAGELABELs for the same page: the pdfmark reference says the
last one takes effect, so the result of your 1st commandline is OK.
Note the /Page key is ignored.

How to set page labels from PostScript? I can think of 2 methods:

(A) The 100% documented way:

Issue a /PAGELABEL as part of each page.

(B) The less documented way:
...

gswin32c -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=50pages.pdf -dNOPAUSE



GS>[/_objdef {pl} /type /dict /OBJ pdfmark

GS>[{pl} <</Nums [0 <</P (Page ) /S /r /St 10>> 2 <<>>]>> /PUT pdfmark

GS>[{Catalog} <</PageLabels {pl}>> /PUT pdfmark

GS>50 { showpage } repeat

GS>quit

... and further in that thread:

As to making this work; since the original file is a PDF file, you can run each
page from the file individually. So you can set the PAGELABEL pdfmark for page
1, run page 1 from the original file, set the PAGELABEL for page 2, run page 2
from the original file and so on.

Because the label is (as SaGS) said applied to the current page, this should
correctly set the labels for each page in the output PDF file.
(caveat: I haven't actually tried this)

EDIT: just to show this - if you have this saved as pdfmarks file:

[ /Label (-1) /PAGELABEL pdfmark

showpage

[ /Label (0) /PAGELABEL pdfmark

showpage

[ /Label (1) /PAGELABEL pdfmark

showpage

... and you call:

gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=outfile.pdf infile.pdf pdfmarks

... then you will get three empty pages appended at the end of infile.pdf, labeled -1, 0 and 1 :)

Well, maybe this helps sometime to get a simpler gs script for renumbering pages :)

Cheers!

EDIT2: Got it, I think - use same gs command as above - and below are the contents of the pdfmarks script, which will renumber the infile.pdf, so it starts with -1, 0, 1 ... It's basically a modified example from the PDF reference (see comments for more):

% Type name (Optional) The type of PDF object that this dictionary describes; if present, must be PageLabel for a page label dictionary.

% S name (Optional) The numbering style to be used for the numeric portion of each page label:

%       D Decimal arabic numerals

%       R Uppercase roman numerals

%       r Lowercase roman numerals

%       A Uppercase letters (A to Z for the first 26 pages, AA to ZZ for the next 26, and so on)

%       a Lowercase letters (a to z for the first 26 pages, aa to zz for the next 26, and so on)

% P text string (Optional) The label prefix for page labels in this range.

% St integer (Optional) The value of the numeric portion for the first page label in the range. Subsequent pages will be numbered sequentially from this value, which must be greater than or equal to 1. Default value: 1.



% renumber first 25 pages - push each by 10, and add prefix:

% [/_objdef {pl} /type /dict /OBJ pdfmark

% [{pl} <</Nums [0 <</P (Page ) /S /D /St 10>> 25 <<>>]>> /PUT pdfmark

% [{Catalog} <</PageLabels {pl}>> /PUT pdfmark



[/_objdef {pl} /type /dict /OBJ pdfmark

[{pl} <</Nums [ 0 << /P (-1) >>         % just label -1 (no style) for pg 0;

                1 << /P (0) >>          % just label  0 (no style) for pg 1;

                2 << /S /D /St 1 >>     % decimal style, start from 1, for pg2 and on.

                ]>> /PUT pdfmark

[{Catalog} <</PageLabels {pl}>> /PUT pdfmark

Openoffice/Libreoffice can do the trick with the pdf-import extension and a pagination Macro.

Not a perfect solution, but it works for me (apart from using PDF Mod - which I would strongly suggest).

Try pyPdf, a python library to manipulate PDF documents. Some, but not much, programming would be necessary.

You could also have a look at PDFtk, though I haven't checked if it supports changing the page number associated with individual pages. Both are available as packages in Ubuntu.

There is another app out there called PDFEdit - its hosted on source forge.
Source Forge Project Page - However this doesn't help because it doesn't the functionality you require

There is a little python script, that can do the job: https://github.com/lovasoa/pagelabels-py

In your case call:

./addpagelabels.py --delete file.pdf

./addpagelabels.py --startpage 1 --type 'roman lowercase' file.pdf

./addpagelabels.py --startpage 4 --type arabic file.pdf