[pdftex] Page numbers in pdf file.

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 22 February 2003 05:20, Martin Jansche wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, John Culleton wrote:
> > Is there a way to convince pdfetex to create a file where the
> > assigned page number will also show up in the window of Acrobat
> > Reader?
>
> I asked that same question a while back; Heiko and Sebastian answered
> it.  In a nutshell, the easy way is to say
>
>   \usepackage[pdfpagelabels]{hyperref}
>
> A less straightforward way would be to set up /PageLabels directly
> in \pdfcatalog{}.
>
> - martin

Thanks for your reply.

Since I use pdfetex and not pdfelatex the second option is of
interest. I tried 
\pdfcatalog{/PageLabels}
...and the file processed successfully but Acrobat reader errored off
with error 122. So can someone correct my code please?
-- 
John Culleton