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Originally Posted by wallcraft
The purpose of the on-screen page number is to indicate exactly were the "page" starts (accurate to one line of text). So they can appear anywhere vertically on the screen. This makes more sense when it is a "physical" page (e.g. from the paper version of the book) than when it is Adobe's "character count" pages.
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I know this... I was hoping to get HarryT to say so too, since he curiously decided to showcase a very uncharacteristically subtle example of the page number... and not so subtly implied that I am a nut.
The page number's actual presence is far less distracting/annoying than the fact that its position on the
actual DAMN page being shown keeps changing after every page turn.
Admittedly... like so many eBook problems, this one could probably most readily be remedied by abandoning the delusion that you can design one file for ideal viewing on all devices... and design specifically for a given device, for which then you can properly synchronize ePub's imaginary pages to the actual shown pages. That is, until somebody changes the font size.
- Ahi