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Quoth · 03-17-2025, 05:20 AM

Any ebook format can display the paper book page numbers. It's a publisher decision.

The print edition is usually made from a PDF. A PDF edition is where publishers need fixed layout (which needs a suitable size larger screen), perhaps for a text book or magazine, or can't be bothered going back to the source to do an ebook. You can easily adapt the source file for an ebook to have the extra things for PDF/paper. Turning a PDF into an ebook is nearly impossible, but using the wordprocessor source is easy. Almost all the big publishers do production the wrong way round, proofing on PDF and having that print ready before creating an ebook. They should do the proofing on ebook (epub2 for simplicity as that can be automatic from wordprocessor) and then doing the final PDF for paper print and epub version for publication.

03-17-2025, 05:20 AM	#8
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,255 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Any ebook format can display the paper book page numbers. It's a publisher decision. The print edition is usually made from a PDF. A PDF edition is where publishers need fixed layout (which needs a suitable size larger screen), perhaps for a text book or magazine, or can't be bothered going back to the source to do an ebook. You can easily adapt the source file for an ebook to have the extra things for PDF/paper. Turning a PDF into an ebook is nearly impossible, but using the wordprocessor source is easy. Almost all the big publishers do production the wrong way round, proofing on PDF and having that print ready before creating an ebook. They should do the proofing on ebook (epub2 for simplicity as that can be automatic from wordprocessor) and then doing the final PDF for paper print and epub version for publication. Last edited by Quoth; 03-17-2025 at 05:26 AM.