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If “Go to Page” displays the wrong page

If the “Go to Page” command doesn’t display the page you expected, try selecting the “Use logical page numbers” option in the PDF pane of Preview preferences. If the document is set up to use logical page numbers, the “Go to Page” command will display the correct page.

In some PDF documents, the pages are labeled with numbers that don’t match the pages’ positions. For example, in some documents the first five pages are labeled with roman numerals i-v and the remaining pages are labeled with Arabic numerals staring with 1, so the page labeled “1” is actually the sixth page in the document. In this case, the logical page number is “1” and the page’s position is sixth.

To use logical page numbers:

Step 1

Choose Preview > Preferences, and then click PDF.

Step 2

Select “Use logical page numbers.”

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