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I'd say ADE does it. At least, when you follow links, they are always in the same location in the page, that is, as long as you don't change font size, the "pages" are fixed, so they must have been typeset in advance.
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Are you talking about page numbering in ADE? Thats a quit simple algorithm: the size of the packed(!) (x)html file is divided by 1024, and thises chunks are called a page.
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The whole point of multiple chapters is that the extra ones don't get in the way of what you're doing *now*. If there are 150 chapters, or 1500, it doesn't matter... all that matters is the one that's the target of the current link, whether that's in the TOC or the result of hitting the "next page" button. Quote:
The toc.nxc file is not arranged in any layout format; how it shows up is built into the software. In epubreader for Firefox, the toc.ncx listings show up as links in a column on the left-hand side of the page. In the Sony reader, it's under the "Table of Contents" internal menu--and jumping to it doesn't lose your page. An HTML TOC means losing your last-page setting to jump to the TOC. (Which might be irrelevant, since if you're going to the TOC, it's pretty much to change your page--but if you can't figure out which page to visit and want to go back, you can't if you've navigated to an inline HTML TOC.) Quote:
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As you rightly say, this is one of the visible differences between ePub and Mobi. When you follow a link in a Mobi book, the jump destination always ends up at the top of the page. In an ePub book under ADE, the jump destination is "preserved" across jumps.
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Say you have a long chapter, with two anchors inside. You read the chapter page by page, normally, and see the first anchor on top of one page (screen) continue reading, see the second anchor in the middle of another page (screen). Now you follow some hyperlinks that lead you to the anchors, and you get the first anchor on top of the page, and the second anchor in the middle of the page, exactly like the first time. This means that the software already "knows" about the whole chapter, and has done some kind of pagination on the whole chapter. |
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sometimes you flip a page, and see no page flip in the page counter.
When you flip the second page, the page flips by two. I believe that those page counters are an approximation. After all, if you fill the whole page with letters 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii' you'll be able to fit more characters on a page, than when filling them with capital W or M. |
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That's the page numbers huebi referred to. It's completely unrelated to the actual number of times you have to flip a page, it's only (marginally) useful to define a location in a book.
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Well, that depends of the definition of the char. ITs no problem to make an i broader then a W, and in fact, in monospaced fonts all chars do have the same width.
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I figured out in ePub or zip, there is no such thing as a solid archive, like in winrar and 7z. If there where, it would have been impossible to extract one file or one htm. Does anyone have a modern version of winzip that can test out if it has solid archive capabilities? I also wonder why they didn't choose rar or 7z. Rar continuously proved better in compression to zip since the late '90's, and I've been using 7z since 2005 I believe, as it surpassed rar. is like creating an mp3 player that only accepts wav format. Even today, an mp3 already is outdated. Last edited by ProDigit; 04-17-2012 at 08:30 AM. |
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Winrar is intended to be Windows-only. No idea why not 7z, except that it's a less universal system. Many programs can do zip; only 7zip can do 7z files. They went with the most common & accessible type of compression.
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Even if modern version of Winzip would support solid archives, I don't think it will work and why would you? To save a measly few bytes? By being able only to extract what is needed, they can use less powerful hardware and thereby saving battery power.
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They needed something that is well standardized, well defined, public, with freely available implementations (both for compressing and decompressing), and which can be conveniently used in a handheld device. I don't know if rar or 7z qualify for those, but apparently zip did.
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