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Old 05-13-2009, 08:11 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
The page number on the Reader stays down there, but ePub also has page numbers on the sides of the pages, in very tiny type; occasionally, these numbers overlap the text.
At this page, very close to the bottom adobe offers their "EPUB Best Practices". The chapter dedicated to "Adobe extensions" explains peculiar Adobe's grievance with ePub format, the lack of "page map" resource. One could argue that "page map" is very strange concept for reflowable format that ePub is, but there you have it.

I did not experiment with "page map" extensions, although I would not be surprised if numbers disappear on such documents. It is my understanding that for ePub files without that resource, ADE calculates "synthetic page" and marks the beginning of that page with the number.

It looks horrible, of course. Why they decided not to render the document and find actual page breaks for the device in the background, when ebook is opened for the first time? No idea.
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