page-numbering – How to Get the Physical Absolute Page Number in LaTeX

page-numbering

I have an article of nine pages which include three kinds of page number styles – Roman, arabic and Alph. The layout of the pages and their logical numbers are: I II 1 2 3 4 A B C.

I want to get the physical (absolute) page number of a given page from a macro (or counter). For example, it should be 7 for the page with logical number A, and 5 for the page with logical number 3.

I tried with the LaTeX macro \ReadonlyShipoutCounter, but this macro did not give the right number.

Anyone can help me? Preferably without using other packages.

Example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry,fancyhdr}
\geometry{showframe}
\pagestyle{fancy}

% My Try: (not succeessful)
\newcommand\abspagenumber{\the\ReadonlyShipoutCounter}

% My Intent:
\newcommand\abspage{...}%output the absolute page number of a certain page in article

\rhead{\thepage}
\chead{Currrent Physical Page Number is: \abspagenumber}
%\lhead{Currrent Physical Page Number is: \abspage}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
first page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
sencond page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
third page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
fourth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
fifth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
sixth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
\pagenumbering{Alph}
seventh page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
eighth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber\par
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\clearpage
nineth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
% The absolute page number of this page is: \abspage.
\end{document}

Edit:

Base on the solution given by Ulrike Fischer I have another request:
How can I make \abspagenumber work in a watermark?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry,fancyhdr,eso-pic}
\geometry{showframe}
\pagestyle{fancy}


\newcommand\abspagenumber{\inteval{\ReadonlyShipoutCounter+1}}

\rhead{\thepage}
\chead{Currrent Physical Page Number is: \abspagenumber}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
first page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
\AddToShipoutPictureBG{\AtPageCenter{\abspagenumber}}

\clearpage
sencond page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber

\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
third page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber

\clearpage
fourth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber

\clearpage
fifth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
\AddToShipoutPictureBG{\AtPageCenter{\abspagenumber}}
\clearpage
sixth page\par current absolute page number is: \abspagenumber
\end{document}

Best Answer

Using the new hook facility provided by the LaTeX kernel to calculate the current abs. page number and to add the watermark:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{geometry,fancyhdr}
\geometry{showframe}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\AtBeginDocument{\xdef\currentPageNumber{1}}
\AddToHook{shipout/after}{\xdef\currentPageNumber{\inteval{\ReadonlyShipoutCounter+1}}}

\rhead{\thepage}
\chead{Current Physical Page Number is: \currentPageNumber}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
first page\par current absolute page number is: \currentPageNumber
\AddToHookNext{shipout/background}{% upper left page corner coordinate is (0,0)
  \unitlength=\paperheight
  \put(0,-0.5){\makebox[\paperwidth][c]{\currentPageNumber}}
}

\clearpage
sencond page\par current absolute page number is: \currentPageNumber

\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
third page\par current absolute page number is: \currentPageNumber

\clearpage
fourth page\par current absolute page number is: \currentPageNumber

\clearpage
fifth page\par current absolute page number is: \currentPageNumber
\AddToHookNext{shipout/background}{
  \unitlength=\paperheight
  \put(0,-0.5){\makebox[\paperwidth][c]{\currentPageNumber}}
}
\clearpage
sixth page\par current absolute page number is: \currentPageNumber
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Finding the physical page number of a particular logical page

A) The get the "physical" number of a page of a PDF document, there are different possibilities, for example:

manual counting (of course; might be cumbersome as well as prone to errors)
using Adobe Reader to show also the physical page number: "For the logical page numbers display of the pdf file use logical page numbers together with hyperref! - In Adobe Reader X enable: Edit > Preferences (Ctrl+k) > Page Display > Page Content and Information > Use logical page numbers. - Use the hyperref package with option plainpages=false . The display will be e.g. 7 (7 of 9), or, in case of Roman instead of arabic numbers, VII (7 of 9), and when different page numbers are used [...] e.g. arabic after 10 Roman pages: 17 (27 of 30). Please try this with the compiled pageslts-example file!" (page 4 of pageslts manual)

using the pageslts package to print the physical page number (\theCurrentPage) in the footer:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pageslts}

\makeatletter
  \renewcommand{\@evenfoot}{%
    \hspace*{\fill}%
    Page \thepage\ (\theCurrentPage\ of \lastpageref{LastPages})%
    \hspace*{\fill}%
   }
  \renewcommand{\@oddfoot}{\@evenfoot}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
Test
\newpage
More test text.
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Now look at the first number in the parentheses in the footer!

\end{document}

This will need at least two compiler runs. When you have determined the page numbers you are looking for, you can just remove the code between \makeatletter and \makeatother and recompile.

B) "I need to fetch some part from a pdf file". For this you do not necessarily need to know the physical page numbers. For example you could use the selectp package. For example

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{selectp}
\outputonly{1,0,1}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
Test
\newpage
More test text.
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Still more text.

\end{document}

will allow only pages i (1; 1 of 3) and 1 (3 of 3) to be output. The order is not random but must be the order that the pages are produced; normally this means the numbers must always increase.

With roman numbers: 1-3, 1-3 prints the pages i-iii, 1-3

and 0, 1-3 prints the pages 1-3.

It needs a complete compiled file before use! (And you must translate e.g. i to 1, but that should not be an issue.)

[Tex/LaTex] Setting logical page number of first page to zero (displayed in viewer)

You need to place the \setcounter{page}{0} inside the titlepage environment since, depending on your setup, the default document class either sets the page counter to 0 or 1.

More specifically, the following is taken from article.cls:

\if@compatibility
\newenvironment{titlepage}
    {%
      \if@twocolumn
        \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
      \else
        \@restonecolfalse\newpage
      \fi
      \thispagestyle{empty}%
      \setcounter{page}\z@
    }%
    {\if@restonecol\twocolumn \else \newpage \fi
    }
\else
\newenvironment{titlepage}
    {%
      \if@twocolumn
        \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
      \else
        \@restonecolfalse\newpage
      \fi
      \thispagestyle{empty}%
      \setcounter{page}\@ne
    }%
    {\if@restonecol\twocolumn \else \newpage \fi
     \if@twoside\else
        \setcounter{page}\@ne
     \fi
    }
\fi

If you're under the compatibility condition, then the page counter is set to 0 (\z@), otherwise it's set to 1 (\@ne). Since the former is rarely used anymore, you have to reset page to 0 inside the titlepage environment.

Edit:

Best Answer

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