Distiller 8 stripping logical page numbering

A client has set up a repurposing workflow that requires us to save PDFs as
Postscript, and then run new Distiller settings on the Postscript file.

When we run the process in Acrobat & Distiller 8, the logical page numbering
is stripped (that is, if the first page of the original page showed as Page 19
(1 of 26), after processing it reverts to Page 1 (1 of 26)).

The client says this does not happen in Acrobat/Distiller 7, and we have
confirmed this. Processing the files in Acrobat/Distiller 7 is not a very useful
option for us, as most of our workstations have moved to Leopard, and therefore
cannot distill files reliably using Distiller 7. We are working around the
problem by manually resetting the logical page numbering in the PDFs after
processing--an extra step.

Here's my question: has anyone else experienced this behavior? Any idea why the
process would strip the page numbering in version 8, but not in version 7? If
anyone has experienced this, have you found a setting that prevents the problem
in version 8?

> Here's my question: has anyone else experienced this behavior? Any idea why
the process would strip the page numbering in version 8, but not in version 7?
If anyone has experienced this, have you found a setting that prevents the
problem in version 8?
> 
Probably not since this is a workflow just waiting to go wrong. The 
option in Distiller under 'Advanced / Process DSC' is the 'Preserve 
Document Info from DSC option' ...

Jon,

Thanks for your reply. It's not a workflow we would have designed; the client
insists upon it, however, and it does seem to get them what they want, except
for the page numbering problem.

Upon testing the setting you suggest, the "Preserve Document Info from
DSC" option appears *not* to preserve logical page numbering. It preserves
other information--title, creation date, and time--but not the logical page
numbers. It was a good suggestion, though. Perhaps that parameter was left out
when the code was rewritten for Acrobat/Distiller 8...

Yours,

It works first time from document through Distiller to PDF but the page 
mark info is lost upon re-fry (which is what you're doing) ....

Yes, that is a very succinct statement of what is happening. I'll see if I can
convince the client to avoid refrying in the future.

Yours,