Unlock notecards

[Hogenson]

A few years ago, There was a question about how to use the automatic pagination function in notecards if you were working with a book with a lot of front matter. The reply was to edit the page numbers by hand. Two questions:
1) Has this function been changed to allow for discounting the front matter and beginning pagination from page 1? If so, how is it activated?
2) I have a book PDF with annotations that have all been picked up by the Notecard function but with incorrect pagination. However, the notecards all have the lock icon and cannot be edited. How do I disable the lock on the notecards? I would prefer the lock function be disabled altogether if possible.

Best regards,
George

[Jon]

The locked notecards are read-only annotations in the PDF. You can't alter the PDF. If you want to change them, import them into the reference Notes field. Right-click on the locked notecard and select one of the two options for importing them into Notes.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Sarah1986]

• I'm creating notecards on a PDF generated from word document (draft thesis that I am marking for a student).

• There are~10 pages of front matter (table of contents, list of figures etc), page numbering in the PDF starts after the front matter, but when I annotate with the Notecards - the page numbers do not align with the actual pages numbers of the PDF (e.g I'm annotating page 1 but the Notecards says @11 - I'm assuming because it is counting the front matter pages).

• I've also tested academic books (lots of front matter) - notecards quotes the correct page number (e.g @180) but I tested an academic article that had an automatic front page (like this: image description: a single PDF page that shows the article title, journal name and author with a crossmark button) and it threw all the notecards quotes out by one page

Question: Is there anything I can do to the word document in exporting to PDF that will support Bookends to correctly recognise the page numbers? I'm assuming it is some sort of document metadata? I've got access to the word document, and given that I'm marking 100K words, it would be good to just have this correct working, rather than manually changing each annotation.

...how to use the automatic pagination function in notecards if you were working with a book with a lot of front matter. The reply was to edit the page numbers by hand...

[Jon]

Bookends reads the PDF "label" property to get the page number. Most PDFs begin with 1, regardless of the actual page number in the published journal. Sometimes the publisher embeds the correct published page number, but most don't. Bookends tries to deal with this by comparing the starting page number in the PDF to the metadata in the Pages field in the reference. So, if you have 10 pages of front matter, try entering -10-100 in the Pages field (the second number being the actual number of pages - 10, for example if it were 110 you'd enter 100). Now see how Bookends treats the page number when you extract.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Sarah1986]

Thanks - this worked. The notecards adjusted all the pages.

[Sarah1986]

Hi Jon (and others),

I'm coming back to this question as I've now got a long report that has the page numbers in both roman numerals ( i-x) for the first 10 pages, and then
in decimal numbers 1-128 for the body of the report. Is there anyway to capture both these systems with quotes? Or should I just adjust it manually?

TIA

[Jon]

If you don't edit the PDF, the last Bookends update (15.1.1) should show the roman numerals in the note stream if they are actually used in the PDF label field. But for most PDF's I've seen, the label field is either empty or starts at 1 regardless of what you, as the reader, see printed. You can send me such a PDF and I'll take a look.

Jon
Sonny Software