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Originally Posted by davidfor
Except of course they would have to do this for each font, each font size, each margin setting and each line spacing setting. Of course, it can be handled by doing it each time a setting is change, but do you delete the existing one? Yes, it can be done, but is it practical?
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Yes it is IMO. Kobo could have chosen to store every possible combination (bigger database but faster "calculation" when switching back to a known combination) or probably much better just one setting. As I underlined the trick is using a background process. Of course you have to render the whole book and that can take some time, but what is the problem of saying "counting pages" in the footer for a while instead of an instantaneous "page xx of yy"? More over when in fact I suppose people are not continuously changing layout settings. You usually just change them at the beginning till they suit your preferences...
And about if it is worth the effort, just look at this thread. Some people are more or less complaining about full book page numbering being absolute... So I suppose they would prefer relative ones. And this "issue" arises again and again periodically... Somehow the mix of relative/chapter vs absolute/book is weird for the final user, no matter how many coding or technical reasons cause it. It just looks as a "bug"...
And as a matter of fact I also DO prefer absolute page numbers, so I'm playing the Devil's Advocate role here...