Adding page labels

Page labeling is a way of marking an individual pages of your document with custom symbols. These symbols are then used by PDF viewers to navigate through the document.

Currently, scribus does not support page labeling. This article explains how to do it in post-processing.

Adding page labels to a PDF document
This method requires pdflatex with pdfpages and hyperref packages.

Downside
When working with a PDF files, pdflatex always strips all links. If you need to preserve links, you can use the pax package.

Instructions
Create a file named  with the following content:

Note that if you would like to start numbering from different number (e.g. 2), you should replace the  command with:

To generate a pdf file, invoke the following command in your terminal:

Now you can open the  file in a PDF viewer (like Evince or Okular) and see that first 3 pages are labeled with Roman numbers, whereas the remaining ones with the Hindu numbers.