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Originally Posted by Chris_Snow
eschwartz@ not so puter-wise...so I don't know the answers - that's why I ask 
I though the ability to tweak the existing viewer to emulate (same size, margins, line spacing, fonts etc) would be a good feature - all inside calibre so I don't have to swap between programs. |
You can set a user stylesheet to override the look & feel of books. You can set line size, spacing, margins, fonts and more.
Sadly, that is not the same as emulating the device rendering engines, which have their own quirks and weirdnesses. Each engine has their own way of interpreting the book, and their own ways of
breaking the publisher's intent.
If you really want to know how a book will look on any device, you need either the device itself or something built off the same programming.
Often, a device manufacturer will provide desktop programs which are similar in design. Kindle Previewer is an actual Kindle emulator that mimics each of the Kindle models. Most other devices will *mostly* act like ADE, which they tend to be based off of.
Also, regarding page numbers -- they are almost entirely meaningless. The Kindle will only show page numbers when a special data file is added next to each book, mapping to the page numbers in a book. Pretty much any other device I believe will flatly lie to you as they estimate each page as 1024 characters of text, regardless of the actual book's pages. (Because they use ADE.) Unless there is a page numbers file in the book, which will then be used instead -- but you'd have to check that yourself.