How to restart page numbering the correct way after a report title page

Question

I am making a document using the report class:

\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\title{My Report}
\author{Ben Z.}
\date{September 8, 2022}
\begin{document}
{ % I previously had this as a titlepage environment, but that didn't seem to do anything.
    \let\newpage\relax%
    \setlength{\parindent}{0em}
    \maketitle
    \begin{center}
        This document was made as an MWE for TeX StackExchange.
    \end{center}
}
\clearpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{\fill}
\begin{center}
    Copyleft 2022 Ben Z. No Rights Reserved.
\end{center}
\cleardoublepage
\chapter{Beginnings}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
\end{document}

As you can see if you compile this, I have a title page with a copyleft notice on the reverse of it. The next page should be numbered as page 1.

To accomplish this, I tried adding \setcounter{page}{1} (I also tried something similar with \addtocounter) after the title page, but there were two problems with this:

• When I printed my document double-sided, the pagination got messed up. The title page was on its own sheet of paper, and the copyleft notice was on the front of the next sheet.
• The numbering in Adobe Acrobat was incorrect. As I scrolled through the document, the page number indicator at the top of the screen went 1 → 2 → 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → ...

Is there a way to change the page number without encountering these two problems? I do not want page numbers on my title page.

In other documents that I read in Acrobat, I see something like this in the toolbar at the top:

Is there a way to do something like this with pdfLaTeX?

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Note: Similar questions to this one have been asked, but as far as I know, this is not a duplicate (it is slightly different).

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Answer 1

This solution comes from a Heiko Oberdiek's answer.

It requires loading hyperref and adding pdf labels to the first two pages. (Title and Copyleft respectively). They will show in the external pdf viewer with those "numbers".

If \setcounter{page}{1} is added before the first chapter then Chapter 1 (physical page #3 but with a logical page number of 1) will appear in the viewer as page 1 and so on.

This code will produce an eight page document.

% !TeX TS-program = pdflatex
\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\title{My Report}
\author{Ben Z.}
\date{September 8, 2022}
\usepackage{kantlipsum} % dummy text <<<
\usepackage[
pdfpagelabels=true,
%bookmarks=false,
pageanchor=false,
]{hyperref}% needed <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
\begin{document}
{\let\newpage\relax%
        \setlength{\parindent}{0em}
        \thispdfpagelabel{Title} % added <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
        \maketitle
        \begin{center}
            This document was made as an MWE for TeX StackExchange.
        \end{center}}
\clearpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\thispdfpagelabel{Copyleft}  % added &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;
\vspace*{\fill}
\begin{center}
    Copyleft 2022 Ben Z. No Rights Reserved.
\end{center}
\cleardoublepage


\setcounter{page}{1}

\chapter{Beginnings}

\kant[1-20]


\end{document}

To print this document double-sided, you need a printer that can do it and use the right paper size.