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:This is a great question but I am unsure if this is the right place to ask it. I don't know where else to take it, but I don't think it's here. Let me know if you ever find out where to go to get an answer on that :/ <span style="text-shadow:#250 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em;color:purple;font-style:bold;">[[User talk:Trs9k|ⓣⓡⓢ]][[Special:Contributions/Trs9k|⑨ⓚ]]</span> 04:47, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
:Following up on this. I think [[WP:PAGENUM]] offers the closest I've seen to guidance on this topic, while the conversation just above us here, under "What about quoting the source?", gives us a practical, real-world solution to citing to an ebook - include the referenced text in the citation (as long as it's, y'know, within reason). <span style="text-shadow:#250 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em;color:purple;font-style:bold;">[[User talk:Trs9k|ⓣⓡⓢ]][[Special:Contributions/Trs9k|⑨ⓚ]]</span> 18:05, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
== PDF page numbers: real vs labeled ==
When citing a PDF and trying to include a page number, there is this common confusion because often the actual page number of the PDF itself is not the same as the page number label on a given page (due to, for example, early pages within a document not being numbered by the authors). So is the best practice to use the real PDF page numbers as they would be counted by a PDF viewer, or to use the labels placed on pages (if they are present) by the authors of the PDF? I believe the generally accepted standard is the latter (use the author's page numbers if they are there). True?
Fun fact: the PDF file format actually allows pages to be given explicit numbers (labels) by the authors that are also respected by the PDF viewer, but few people use this capability. https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdflsdk/apireference/PD_Layer/PDPageLabel.html [[User:Surlyhacker|Surlyhacker]] ([[User talk:Surlyhacker|talk]]) 06:48, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
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