Page numbering off by 1

[Jerry Seibert]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:16:51 -0400, Jerry Seibert stated:
>On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:05:10 +0200, Herbert Voss stated:
>>Am 22.07.21 um 00:20 schrieb Jerry Seibert:  
>>> I am trying to place a frame around several pages in a document I am
>>> creating. The frame works fine, "varioref" gets the page number
>>> wrong.    
>>
>>Looks like a problem with the pgf box. Here is a solution with
>>fabcybox:
>>
>>\documentclass{report}%
>>\usepackage[letterpaper, left=0.50in, right=0.50in, top=0.50in, 
>>bottom=1.00in]{geometry}
>>\usepackage{fancyhdr,fancybox} % Custom page headers and footers%
>>\usepackage{lastpage}
>>
>>\pagestyle{fancy} % set page style to fancy%
>>\fancyfoot{} % clear the footers%
>>\fancyhead{} % clear the headers%
>>\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Eliminate the head rule line%
>>\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{2.0pt}
>>\pagenumbering{arabic}%
>>
>>\fancyfoot[r]{\footnotesize \textbf{Page \thepage\ 
>>of~\pageref*{LastPage}}}%%
>>
>>\fancypage{%
>>        \setlength\fboxsep{8pt}%
>>        \setlength\fboxrule{2pt}%
>>        \fbox}{}
>>\begin{document}
>>     Start of document \pageref{page2} and \pageref{page3}.
>>     \cleardoublepage
>>     this is page 2. \label{page2}
>>     \cleardoublepage
>>     this is page three \label{page3}
>>\end{document}
>>
>>Herbert  
>
>Thanks, it works perfectly. I never thought about using "fancy" for
>creating boxes.

I spoke too soon. The frame is shifted to the right; i.e., not centered
on the page.

-- 
Jerry