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Originally Posted by Peter Sorotokin
Adobe had to solve page number issue (and put page numbers on the margin) for business reasons. Our position is that page map is a practical solution to existing problem. It will be supported in the future. Other renderers are free to use it as well. In the future NCX syntax will probably be "blessed" for the same purpose, but currently it is not. Once NCX page map syntax is officially part of the standard, Adobe viewer will support it in parallel to existing page map syntax.
Jon's message that you referred to is Jon's opinion (not IDPF position) and I think he misrepresents many things. I saw a variation of this message in so many places that I am just unable to go to each one and rebuke it.
In a nutshell: yes, it is non-standard extension and it won't validate (being an extension); no, it won't be dropped; no, it won't cause problems in any other viewer; no, there is no standard way of doing it (even though alternative syntax does validate, that usage of NCX is not "blessed" in the spec); no, there is no other viewer that implements NCX syntax for pages at this point.
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OK, Peter, that explanation is just fine and dandy. Now... Can you
force (or at least very strongly encourage) your ADE Mobile licensees to provide an option whereby the display of the little marginal page number can be
TURNED OFF!!!! 
Page numbers that overlap the displayed text are really, REALLY,
REALLY annoying! And I resent the idea of having to waste some of my very limited screen real-estate just to stay clear of the &^%$&^%$&^*% page number.
The concept of these page numbers seems just fine to me. But the implementation (as embodied in currently available Sony readers) is absolutely maddening! I can already see the page number in the information bar at the bottom of the screen. So why oh why must I have it "in the margin" -- especially when my preference is to get rid of the &^%*&^% margin anyway.
Thanks for you attention and sorry for the heated language above. This is one of the persistent nits that's particularly annoying with an otherwise quite nice device and display software. (Decent hyphenation support would be the next thing on my list, btw.)
Xenophon