Strange page numbering with onesided book and hyperref package

Question

The following code produces page numbers which show in SumatraPDF as 1, 1.1, 2. I expect the pages to be numbered 1, 2, 3. This numbering is caused by the combination of oneside option for the book document class, and the hyperref package. What is the reason for this numbering, and how can it be fixed?

\documentclass[oneside]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\title{Page 1}
\author{Author}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\chapter{Page 2}
Text
\chapter{Page 3}
Text
\end{document}

Answer 1

The document from the question has the following page numbers:

Physical/absolute page vs. \thepage
1 vs. 1
2 vs. 1
3 vs. 2

Class book uses environment titlepage for \maketitle, which resets the page number to one in the end of the environment.

Package hyperref enables option pdfpagelabels by default (not in too old versions). It uses \thepage for the logical page number, that means, the pages are numbered as 1, 1, and 2:

Tested viewers with support for logical page numbers: * Evince 2.32 * AR DC 2015 * SumatraPDF 3.0

The first two show: 1 (1 of 3), 1 (2 of 3), 2 (3 of 3)

SumatraPDF shows: 1 (1/3), 1 (2/3), 2 (3/3)

Maybe, the version of SumatraPDF, you are using, is different and contains a bug.

A better page label for the title page can be set by \thispdfpagelabel{Title}. And the duplicate destination warning can be removed by locally setting pageanchor=false, because a page anchor is probably not needed for the title page (presumably no index entries to the title page, ...).

Example:

\documentclass[oneside]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\title{Page 1}
\author{Author}

\begin{document}
\begingroup
  \thispdfpagelabel{Title}
  \hypersetup{pageanchor=false}
  \maketitle
\endgroup
\chapter{Page 2}
Text
\chapter{Page 3}
Text
\end{document}