diff --git a/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/ExportToFileConfig.java b/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/ExportToFileConfig.java
index dc625352f..ab6bfa973 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/ExportToFileConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/ExportToFileConfig.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public enum DATE_FOOTER_PREF {
   private boolean provenance = true;
   private boolean comments = true;
   private boolean annotations = true;
-  private boolean pageName = true;
+  private boolean restartPageNumberPerDoc = true;
   private boolean includeFieldLastModifiedDate = true;
 
   @NotNull private ExportPageSize pageSize = ExportPageSize.A4;
@@ -67,11 +67,7 @@ public ExportScope getExportScope() {
     return exportScope;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * A name() String of an {@link ExportFormat} enum
-   *
-   * @param exportFormat
-   */
+  /** A name() String of an {@link ExportFormat} enum */
   public void setExportFormat(String exportFormat) {
     this.exportFormat = ExportFormat.valueOf(exportFormat);
   }
@@ -110,8 +106,8 @@ public String toString() {
         + comments
         + ", annotations="
         + annotations
-        + ", pageName="
-        + pageName
+        + ", restartPageNumberPerDoc="
+        + restartPageNumberPerDoc
         + ", pageSize="
         + pageSize
         + ", dateType="
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessor.java b/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessor.java
index 6e9c84f38..34bb2f90f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessor.java
@@ -64,18 +64,32 @@ public void makeExport(
       ExportToFileConfig config)
       throws IOException {
 
-    int startPage;
+    // 1 pdf export can contain multiple docs
+    int pdfPageLength;
     try {
-      startPage = doExportPdf(tempExportFile, documentData, strucDoc, config);
+      pdfPageLength = doExportPdf(tempExportFile, documentData, strucDoc, config);
     } catch (DocumentException e) {
       throw new IOException("Could not generate PDFWriter", e);
     }
+    int startPage = calculatePageNumber(config, pdfPageLength);
+    config.setStartPage(startPage);
+  }
 
-    if (!config.isPageName()) {
-      config.setStartPage(startPage);
-    } else {
-      config.setStartPage(0);
+  /***
+   *  The pdf writer expects the start page to be either:
+   *    - 0 for a new doc, or when restarting the page numbering for each doc on a
+   *      multi-doc/notebook export
+   *    - the length of the existing pdf on multi-doc/notebook export when the user has selected
+   *      not to restart the page numbering for each individual doc
+   * */
+  private int calculatePageNumber(ExportToFileConfig config, int pdfPageLength) {
+    if (!config.isRestartPageNumberPerDoc()) {
+      int currentStartPage = config.getStartPage();
+      return currentStartPage == 0
+          ? currentStartPage + pdfPageLength
+          : currentStartPage + pdfPageLength - 1;
     }
+    return 0;
   }
 
   private int doExportPdf(
@@ -85,7 +99,7 @@ private int doExportPdf(
       ExportToFileConfig config)
       throws DocumentException, IOException {
 
-    log.info("Before: {}", documentData.getDocumentAsHtml());
+    log.debug("Before: {}", documentData.getDocumentAsHtml());
     documentData = preProcessHTML(documentData);
 
     String html = pdfHtmlGenerator.prepareHtml(documentData, strucDoc, config);
@@ -103,7 +117,7 @@ private int doExportPdf(
     renderer.setDocumentFromString(html);
     renderer.layout();
     try (FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(tempExportFile)) {
-      renderer.createPDF(out);
+      renderer.createPDF(out, true, config.getStartPage());
     }
     return renderer.getWriter().getPageNumber();
   }
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/export/export_otherDialogs.jsp b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/export/export_otherDialogs.jsp
index 2dfa68786..7f35c92b8 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/export/export_otherDialogs.jsp
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/export/export_otherDialogs.jsp
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
         <td><input id="pdf_a1IncludeFieldLastModifiedDate" type="checkbox" name="includeFieldLastModifiedDate" checked></input></td>
     </tr>
     <tr><td><fmt:message key="dialogs.pdfArchiving.label.numbering"/></td>
-        <td><input id="pdf_a1pagenbr" type="checkbox" name="pagename" checked></input></td>
+        <td><input id="pdf_a1pagenbr" type="checkbox" name="restartPageNumberPerDoc" checked></input></td>
     </tr>
     <tr><td><fmt:message key="dialogs.pdfArchiving.label.pageFormat"/></td>
         <td><select id="pdf_a1size" name="pagesize">    
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/scripts/tags/exportOtherDialogs.js b/src/main/webapp/scripts/tags/exportOtherDialogs.js
index 1e8d9fef4..1ca34b1c5 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/scripts/tags/exportOtherDialogs.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/scripts/tags/exportOtherDialogs.js
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function _setUpPdfDialog() {
                 var comments = $('#pdf_a1cmmnt').is(':checked') ;
                 var includeFieldLastModifiedDate = $('#pdf_a1IncludeFieldLastModifiedDate').is(':checked') ;
                 var annotations = $('#pdf_a1annotated').is(':checked');
-                var pageName = $('#pdf_a1pagenbr').is(':checked') ;
+                var restartPageNumberPerDoc = $('#pdf_a1pagenbr').is(':checked') ;
                 var pageSize = $('#pdf_a1size').val();
                 var dateType = $('#pdf_a1date').val();
                 var includeFooter = $('#pdf_a1footer').is(':checked') ;
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ function _setUpPdfDialog() {
                     provenance : provenance,
                     comments: comments,
                     annotations: annotations,
-                    pageName : pageName,
+                    restartPageNumberPerDoc : restartPageNumberPerDoc,
                     pageSize : pageSize,
                     dateType: dateType,
                     includeFooter : includeFooter,
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/ExportDialog.js b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/ExportDialog.js
index d61105600..5ac1cc11f 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/ExportDialog.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/ExportDialog.js
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ let pdfConfig = {
   provenance: true,
   comments: true,
   annotations: true,
-  pageName: true,
+        restartPageNumberPerDoc: true,
   pageSize: "A4",
   defaultPageSize: "A4",
   dateType: "EXP",
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/PdfExport.js b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/PdfExport.js
index 1d0fe7b3a..a2c97d8be 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/PdfExport.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/PdfExport.js
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export type PdfExportDetails = {|
   provenance: boolean,
   comments: boolean,
   annotations: boolean,
-  pageName: boolean,
+  restartPageNumberPerDoc: boolean,
   pageSize: PageSize,
   defaultPageSize: PageSize,
   dateType: "EXP" | "NEW" | "UPD",
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const checkboxes = {
   comments: "Include comments",
   annotations: "Include image annotations",
   includeFieldLastModifiedDate: "Include last modified dates for fields",
-  pageName: "Restart page numbering for each document",
+  restartPageNumberPerDoc: "Restart page numbering for each document",
   includeFooter: "Insert date footer at file end only",
 };
 
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/__tests__/PdfExport.test.js b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/__tests__/PdfExport.test.js
index e15b16842..eb8cf244a 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/__tests__/PdfExport.test.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/Export/__tests__/PdfExport.test.js
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ describe("PdfExport", () => {
           provenance: false,
           comments: false,
           annotations: false,
-          pageName: false,
+          restartPageNumberPerDoc: false,
           pageSize: "A4",
           defaultPageSize: "A4",
           dateType: "EXP",
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/eln/sysadmin/users/__tests__/pdfConfig.json b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/eln/sysadmin/users/__tests__/pdfConfig.json
index c7decfc86..2391d1fd3 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/ui/src/eln/sysadmin/users/__tests__/pdfConfig.json
+++ b/src/main/webapp/ui/src/eln/sysadmin/users/__tests__/pdfConfig.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     "provenance" : true,
     "comments" : true,
     "annotations" : true,
-    "pageName" : true,
+    "restartPageNumberPerDoc" : true,
     "includeFieldLastModifiedDate" : true,
     "pageSize" : "A4",
     "dateType" : "EXP",
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessorTest.java b/src/test/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessorTest.java
index 4302bab9d..dd5e1c6b9 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/researchspace/export/pdf/PdfProcessorTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.researchspace.export.pdf;
 
 import static com.researchspace.testutils.RSpaceTestUtils.loadTextResourceFromPdfDir;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.any;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
@@ -9,7 +10,6 @@
 import com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor;
 import com.researchspace.model.User;
 import com.researchspace.model.record.StructuredDocument;
-import com.researchspace.service.UserExternalIdResolver;
 import com.researchspace.testutils.TestRunnerController;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@
 
 @ExtendWith(MockitoExtension.class)
 public class PdfProcessorTest {
-  @Mock private UserExternalIdResolver externalIdResolver;
-
-  @Mock private HTMLUnicodeFontProcesser htmlUnicodeFontProcesser;
-
-  @Mock private HtmlImageResolver htmlImageResolver;
-
   @Mock private PdfHtmlGenerator pdfHtmlGenerator;
 
   @InjectMocks private PdfProcessor pdfProcessor;
@@ -85,6 +79,12 @@ public void outputNonAsciiCharactersTest(String nonAscii) throws Exception {
 
   @Test
   public void concatenatesFiles() throws Exception {
+    String output = concatTwoDocuments();
+    assertTrue(output.contains("This is document 1."));
+    assertTrue(output.contains("This is document 2."));
+  }
+
+  private String concatTwoDocuments() throws Exception {
     // create 2 pdf docs then concatenate and verify the output doc contains the 2 inputs
     String doc1Html = loadTextResourceFromPdfDir("doc1.html");
     ExportProcesserInput exportProcesserInput1 =
@@ -105,10 +105,25 @@ public void concatenatesFiles() throws Exception {
 
     List<File> filesToConcatenate = List.of(pdfDoc1, pdfDoc2);
     pdfProcessor.concatenateExportedFilesIntoOne(outputFile, filesToConcatenate, config);
-    String output = readPdfContent(outputFile);
+    return readPdfContent(outputFile);
+  }
 
-    assertTrue(output.contains("This is document 1."));
-    assertTrue(output.contains("This is document 2."));
+  @Test
+  public void testPageNumbersRestartedEachDoc() throws Exception {
+    concatTwoDocuments();
+
+    // config has start page reset to 0 i.e. next doc would begin at page 1, which is the default
+    assertEquals(0, config.getStartPage());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testPageNumbersContiguous() throws Exception {
+    config.setRestartPageNumberPerDoc(false);
+    concatTwoDocuments();
+
+    // config has start page as page 3 i.e. next doc would begin at page 4, since the config
+    // property to restart the page number on each doc is set to false
+    assertEquals(3, config.getStartPage());
   }
 
   private String readPdfContent(File outFile) throws IOException {