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Old 02-21-2013, 04:20 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by guma View Post
The actual ADE standard as used by KOBO is not as informative/stable as it seems at first glance as a reference since it is referring to the number of bytes in the compressed epub source file rather than to a count of displayed characters. Thus reformatting an epub might change this page count to some degree and the 'fixed' reference is only fixed with regards to one (unaltered) version of an epub. How many characters you will actually see on a displayed 'page' actually depends significantly on the formatting style implemented when the epub was created.
I've played with reformatting an epub and changes in font size, line spacing and margins using a stylesheet don't seem to have much of an effect on the page numbers displayed. Recompressing the epub using an external archiver does have an effect as does changing the contents of the chapter files to modify the styles.

Still, I generally keep the page numbers in right margin turned off as I find them pretty useless.

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David
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