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Originally Posted by Jeff Duntemann
What I really need is probably a little more than a 500-hour project, fersure (especially if executed in C++) but here's the gist: I'd like to have a way to generate a fully paginated pbook print image (basically, a PDF) as well as all the major reflowable ebook file formats without losing pbook page equivalence.
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That's interesting. So source -> PDF, PDF -> page-numbers, source + page-numbers -> reflowable formats. I don't think this would be difficult at all -- let alone a 500+ hour project -- unless you were tying your arm behind your back by requiring this not make use of any existing tools.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Duntemann
In other words, I want there to be page markers in my reflowable ebooks that map to page boundaries in my pbooks..... One of my nightmares is a future day when I can't cite a passage in an ebook from print because there's no standard human-readable way to specify a location within the ebook.
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Ok, so you want a single location-reference mechanism which operates across print and e-book editions? That is, allows one to find the cited location equally well in both a p- and e-book edition of the work in question? And the problem with just either embedding paragraph number in p-books or page-number in e-books is that they're distracting?
It sounds like the solution here would be an e-book format which separates style from content and allows the user to select among different stylesheets (like XHTML+CSS). The content would contain the page-boundary markup, but it would be undisplayed in the normal stylesheet. The user could then select an alternative stylesheet which would show the p-book-corresponding page numbers.