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I'm writing two documents (using a specific template), each of 5 pages, in one .tex file. Between them, I added

\setcounter{page}{1}

to reset the page numbering. The numbers displayed in the resulting PDF are fine: 1-5 and 1-5.

However, the PDF viewer (e.g. SumatraPDF) isn't happy with that. Instead of numbering the pages from 1-10 (e.g. for seeking a page), it has: 1-5, 1.1-5.1.

How can I keep the page numbering that I want but tell the PDF something else? It might have something to do with the PDF catalog.

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The following minimal example provides a way around having duplicate page numbers. The key is to add a differing TeX/PDF \thepage, together with the pdfpagelabels=false setting for hyperref.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}


\usepackage[pdfpagelabels=false]{hyperref}


\begin{document}


\sloppy


% First set of 5 pages
\tableofcontents
\section{First section}
\lipsum[1-25]


\clearpage
\setcounter{page}{1}% Reset page counter
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\texorpdfstring{\arabic{page}}{X\arabic{page}}}%


% Second set of 5 pages
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[26-50]


\end{document}

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Under the assumption that you may have different section numbers within each component of the document, you could even do the following in the preamble:

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\texorpdfstring{\arabic{page}}{\thesection-\arabic{page}}}
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