I've got a lot of large PDFs with logical page numbers (TTRPG rulebooks). These books have a number of "unnumbered" pages, such as the cover, title page, etc.
In the past, "Go to page" was smart about this and would still take me to the page as numbered in the book. In other words, if I did "go to page 33", the page number written on the page would be 33, even though it was something like the 36th page in the actual document.
This behavior is supposed to be governed by a setting in Preview called "use logical page numbers", but it seems to no longer work for me. No matter the toggle's state, "go to page" takes me to the actual document page by that number and not the logical page number. I can confirm via the thumbnail sidebar that the logical page numbers are correctly interpreted (i.e. it says page 33 in the correct spot), and I've confirmed another PDF viewer correctly respects the logical page numbers.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Any known fix? I'm aware of this page: https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/if-go-to-page-shows-the-wrong-page-of-a-pdf-prvw18524/mac but it obviously isn't helping.
ETA: Updating to 13.3 fixed it, much to my surprise!
In the past, "Go to page" was smart about this and would still take me to the page as numbered in the book. In other words, if I did "go to page 33", the page number written on the page would be 33, even though it was something like the 36th page in the actual document.
This behavior is supposed to be governed by a setting in Preview called "use logical page numbers", but it seems to no longer work for me. No matter the toggle's state, "go to page" takes me to the actual document page by that number and not the logical page number. I can confirm via the thumbnail sidebar that the logical page numbers are correctly interpreted (i.e. it says page 33 in the correct spot), and I've confirmed another PDF viewer correctly respects the logical page numbers.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Any known fix? I'm aware of this page: https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/if-go-to-page-shows-the-wrong-page-of-a-pdf-prvw18524/mac but it obviously isn't helping.
ETA: Updating to 13.3 fixed it, much to my surprise!
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