Anyone experienced with Adobe Acrobat?

[Jason Rodgers]

I need some help with a seemingly simple document formatting issue in Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.

I have a PDF document that needs page numbers. There is a cover, a blank page inside the cover, some intro/foreword type pages, then the body of the text. I want to print this document with no page numbers on the cover and blank, lower-case Roman numerals on the intro pages, and standard 1-2-3 numbers on the main text.

Following the user guide, in the Pages Options menu, I find the Number Pages tool. This allows you to do all the page number alterations that I describe above, which I have done, but this apparently only appears on the thumbnail view. When I attempt to put those numbers in a header, with the Header & Footer tool, it simply numbers the pages according to the page position in the document. So, instead of Roman number "i" for the first intro page, it puts a "3" on it. All of the various tutorials on the web give instructions on reorder numbers in the thumbnails (for PDF viewing with Adobe) OR inserting page numbers with the Header & Footer tool, but not both. The user guide suggests that it is possible, but I can't figure it out.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

[Bob Francis]

I remove the first pages then paginate.
Add them back by combining documents. . .
Probably a better way but I haven't found it.
Bob

[Jason Rodgers]

Now THAT'S a tricky workaround. I'll look into this.