On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:15:37 +0100 Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 2/26/2018 8:02 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >> On 02/25/2018 10:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >>> On 2/25/2018 9:12 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> The print range for Acrobat is "3,6,9-11" when it should be "2,5,8-10" >>>> (the document only contains 10 pages). >>> >>> is ok here (looking in the pdf file) >> >> I have tested the file in Acrobat XI and since I got the same wrong page >> ranges, I asked to an Adobe engineer. >> >> He confirmed that the spec is wrong. Page counting for /PrintPageRange >> should be zero-based and it shouldn’t start from one.
This is only one of many cases for which ISO-32000 is the spec and the Adobe Reader is the de-facto spec. Others affect annotations and rendering. >> Sorry for this. Could you correct the implementation? > the usual pdf spec rubish ... no one uses it (although tex is often > first), they it gets a bugged implementation and then the specs change > ... one of the reasons why i don't bother too much in implementing the > latest pdf gadgets ... i wasted too much time adapting to changed > (interpretation of the) specs > > Hans > > (I don't officially have the latest spec as i refuse to pay for a pdf > specification that could be distributed in pdf format.) A small detail: The ISO specification for PDF 2.0 also defines the first page in /PrintPageRange to be page number 1 (not 0). :( Cheers, Christoph ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
