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Originally Posted by DaleDe

The way Sony displays page numbers on the status line is to display the ADE number and a sub-number. So you see 3 ADE page number and a sub-number of 7 within that main number. The number of available sub-numbers varies since it is a virtual page number based in the screen and font size. Images will also increase the screen number but not the ADE number. The idea of the ADE number is to have a single number that can be referenced like a book reference you sometimes see in academic works so it should not change based on font size or screen size. This is unique to ADE implementation and is not in the ePUB standard. PDF can also have a page number but it is based on a real paper edition book. It is possible for ADE ePUB to have a real page number based on the paper edition book but generally you do not see that in the ePUBs you read since they would require special custom conversions to support this ADE unique feature. ADE has other unique features as well as quirks. Read about it in our wiki.

Dale

Thanks for this information. I downloaded and installed Atlantis so I could test the epub format on my reader (I'd been using PDF as my ebook format). I was concerned when I saw this type of page number (like "1-2 of 47") in my reader's status bar, but the above post answered the question.

I do have a questions about fonts in the epub format:

When I created my epub ebook (from an RTF file) in Atlantis and put it on my reader I found that all of the text was rendered in a serif typeface, including the san-serif text. Is this normal in the epub format?

Also, what affect does the font size in the original document have on the font size in the epub and how it will display on my reader?

As I said above, this is my first foray into the epub format. I originally did my ebooks as RTFs. Then moved to PDFs to give me complete format control over my ebooks. But the size of PDFs has led me to consider epub as my ebook format.

The factors in the above issues could be with my reader, the original document, or the program I'm using to make the epub. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.