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Originally Posted by mspelling
do you suggest that we remove the (see pages) words/reference from the print for the ebook conversion or just leave it? because i think that will confuse readers.
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That is your and your publisher's choice. I already explained that you can make it "work," more or less, through "real page number IDs" and links. If your publisher is willing to pay, you can even go a step further, have him/her mark up the original pdf, to point to where, exactly, s/he wanted those "see page X" links to go, and send the reader precisely there, using similar methodology--id's with links. (The back link is always a problem, tho.)
There
are solutions--it all depends on
how much money your client is willing to pay you to implement them. The one piece of advice I'll give you is, don't do that for free, unless you including this sort of linking in your base quote without realizing just
how much work it was going to be.
If your client is like most publishers, s/he will decide that it's not worth "perfectly" linking all the "See page X" incidences. I don't see any reason to remove the "See page X" elements; in my business, we do link those. As I stated, we link them to the same place that InDesign or Word creates those links--the first position at the first line at the top of the page that contains the element to which the author is pointing, so the reader may have to skim a bit to find it, but...it's an imperfect world, right?
Hitch