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I've made myself custom title-page, put it in separate .tex file and when I input it, it is numbered with 1. The very next page is numbered with 1 also, and page-number increases on the following pages. Main file looks like this



How do I suppress page-number on that title-page? (Why \thispagestyle{empty} doesn't work?) edit: Here's the title-page:


        % Upper part of the page
        \textsc{\large Uni}\\[0.1cm]
        \textsc{\Large Faculty}\\[2.8cm]
        \textsc{\Large Sensors}\\[0.1cm]
        {\Large Paper}\\[0.25cm] 

        % Title
        \HRule \\[0.3cm]
            { \Large \bfseries Occupancy}\\[0.3cm]
            { \huge \bfseries Tribos}\\[0.05cm]
        \HRule \\[0.05cm]

        % Author and supervisor
        \begin{center} \large
            An \textsc{Ant}
        % Bottom of the page
        {\large \today}

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Did you try \pagestyle{empty}? –  Yiannis Lazarides Dec 18 '10 at 18:56
@Yiannis Lazarides As a matter of fact, it actually did turn of page-numbering, but I was unable to return it afterwards. –  user1996 Dec 18 '10 at 19:16
@everyone_with_same_problem: this fixed the problem - 1. add \pagenumbering{gobble} before title input 2. add \pagenumbering{arabic} after title input 3. add \pagestyle{empty} inside titlepage.tex. This could probably be generalized. –  user1996 Dec 18 '10 at 19:32
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You could use \pagenumbering{gobble} to switch off page numbering.

To switch it on afterwards, use \pagenumbering{arabic} for arabic numbers or alph, Alph, roman, or Roman for lowercase resp. uppercase alphabetic resp. Roman numbering.

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I'm using \pagenumbering{gobble}, but I'm having some problems with "already used pagenumber", I'm getting the warning message destination with the same identifier (name{page.}) has been already used, duplicate ignored<to be read again>... and it seems to be complaining on the second page in the document. How can I fix that? I'm also using the hyperref package. –  StrawberryFieldsForever Apr 26 '13 at 13:50
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Maybe try to enclose your title page (or the input file) into a \begin{titlepage} and \end{titlepage}; and put \pagenumbering{arabic} just before your main body starts.

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+1 for begin/end titlepage, it is necessary. –  user417896 Nov 1 '13 at 9:25
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