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What You Need to Know About Page Labels

PDF Nomad can read the page labels of a PDF document, and it can edit the labels and use them to stamp the labels onto the pages on the document. This is very useful if you want to add page numbers to a document that doesn't have them.

Due to a limitation in the Mac OS X system frameworks used by PDF Nomad to save the modified documents, any custom page labels are lost when the document is saved back out to storage. The stamps on the pages are not lost, but if you re-open the file in a PDF reader/editor you will see that the pages are numbered sequentially from 1 up, regardless of the labeling scheme in the document at the moment it was saved.

The majority of PDF documents don't specify page labels or specify regular sequentially numbered page labels. For those documents the behavior described above is not an issue since no information is lost. For documents that use different styles of labels, or otherwise non-regular page labels the behavior only becomes an issue if the modified document is to be used digitally (PDF readers) and the labels important. For documents destined for printing, the behavior should never be an issue.