Feature Request: Name Single Page SOLVED

[PHK]

Yes, we can number ranges of pages but I would like to have the facility of naming single pages in a file. I would like this to be alpha-numeric, as well. I would like this to be displayed in the thumbnail panel. I do not think it is necessary to show it in the Page window in the lower active window border; just the page number would suffice there. As users now can insert apha characters in the Prefix window of the Page Numbering feature, I would hope is is not too much of an engineering leap to be able to label single pages.

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Thank you for your consideration of this suggestion.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, PHK

I am unsure what exactly it is you are requesting, naming a single page is most certainly already possible, simply create a new page range ending after that page (in my example below I split page 1 away from the rest of the document, and rename it to "A"):

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Is this not what you are looking for? It seems to be based on your description.

Kind regards,

[PHK]

...Is this not what you are looking for? It seems to be based on your description...

Thank you, Daniel. Yes, I guess it is what I was looking for. Please excuse my blind spot.

As far as I'm concerned, you can mark this either "Solved" or delete the whole thread.

But having a single-click UI choice to do this wouldn't be horrible, would it?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

[PHK]

OK, now I want to UNSOLVE this.

I would like the new name association to be "sticky", that is, if the page moves, the assigned name moves with it. Or if other pages are moved in the stack, the name moves with the page, which is not the case now.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, PHK

Are you certain about that? It seems to be working just fine for me in the current release.

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Would it be possible for you to record a Gif or Video showing me what you see when moving pages?

Kind regards,

[PHK]

...

Are you certain about that?...

No, I am absolutely confused.

If I set up a test file like yours I get the same performance as you. However, on a Real World file that I am working on, I don't. When I delete earlier (lower-numbered, with no customization) pages, the earlier page range shrinks but leaving named pages where they were. So, the "prefix" is "sticking" to the page number, not the content of the page. I don't get why I get these two differing results.

[PHK]

I am able to reproduce.

This is my page numbering set-up

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This is the example

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If I delete 3 'early' pages, I get this

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Sorry, 2nd box should say "stayed here".

Ta-daaaa.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, PHK

Thank you for the screenshots, I see the same here, and have created a formal bug report, as well as directly informed the Dev team.

RT#6286: Deleting pages in document with page ranges mishandling

Kind regards,

[PHK]

Thank you for that, Daniel!

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

[PHK]

As I understand that it can take some time for devteam to actually implement this fix, I have come up with a work-around for deleting pages that are 'earlier' than pages I have named without disrupting those names. I have taken my cue from your GIF, Daniel, where you illustrated moving named pages around the file stack. Therefore and until this is fixed, I will MOVE the pages I want deleted to the bottom of the page stack (the high-numbered end) and then harmlessly delete them from there.

[PHK]

I would still like a single-click UI to assign a name to a single page, though.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, PHK

I am glad to hear you have found a workaround, though that does seem cumbersome, so I do hope you do not need to use it for long and that this can be resolved quickly.
Regarding the single click rename function, the Dev team will be considering it when they look this over, but I cannot promise a change at this time.

Kind regards,

[PHK]

... a workaround, though that does seem cumbersome...

It's not really that cumbersome. I have assigned the hot-key [alt-M] to the Move Pages function and, after the move takes place, the pre-selected pages stay selected so an immediate simple click on the Delete keyboard key finishes them off without disrupting the page naming.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]