The lowly page number
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The lowly page number
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Re: The lowly page number
#2Sometimes I want to put a page number on my web apps so I can easily get the answer to “where in the app are you talking about?”
It’s surprising how much work goes into figuring that out / people are terrible about explaining that.
Meta: The flashy gifs and squiggly lines on that page make it hard to read / are distracting.
Re: The lowly page number
#3A professor of mine insisted that presentations have not only page numbers, but also the total number of pages (like this: 4/17), so that he knew how much longer he'd have to listen to this... :-)
Re: The lowly page number
#4A professor of mine insisted that presentations have not only page numbers, but also the total number of pages (like this: 4/17), so that he knew how much longer he'd have to listen to this... :-)
Another practical aspect of 4/17 is that a person printing them out can tell if they've got them all (pages go astray).
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#5Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file.
Never quite sure what reference.
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#6Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file. Never quite sure what reference.
Maybe pdf numbers are sightly annoying in the modern age of writing.
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#7A professor of mine insisted that presentations have not only page numbers, but also the total number of pages (like this: 4/17), so that he knew how much longer he'd have to listen to this... :-)
I do this for business presentations, but especially at conferences to give attendees hope. It includes a progress bar.
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#8Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file. Never quite sure what reference.
A well-prepared PDF can include metadata about each page, so that reader software will be able to display the "logical" page number in addition to the actual numerical index. E.g. a page in the prologue of a book might show up as "xvii (19 of 150)".
Re: The lowly page number
#9Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file. Never quite sure what reference.
A well-prepared PDF can include metadata about each page, so that reader software will be able to display the "logical" page number in addition to the actual numerical index. E.g. a page in the prologue of a book might show up as "xvii (19 of 150)".
This is important because if you want to print a subset of pages, you have to specific the actual numerical page numbers in the print dialog, which may not be the same as the page number on the page.
Re: The lowly page number
#10A professor of mine insisted that presentations have not only page numbers, but also the total number of pages (like this: 4/17), so that he knew how much longer he'd have to listen to this... :-)
This also helps the speaker know whether to speed up or slow down to fill their time.