Thread: standard on page numbers?
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:17 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
There is no standard, there are no "page numbers" in the epub specification. Each software is free to compute (or not) and display (or not) the page numbers in whatever way it sees fit. Some, like Adobe, assign fixed page numbers based on the size of the file; others try to calculate the actual number of screenfuls a given file is going to require in a particular font size and device; others have the option of mapping the page numbers to mimic some paper edition...
Is the page map not a part of the ePub standard? I thought that this allowed pages to be assigned to an ePub file to correspond to a printed addition, as can now also be done in Kindle books.
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