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Has anyone on the list tackled the challenge of generating a page list for ePub output?

A page list is a mapping of print page numbers to locations in the ePub.

I don't see any easy way to do it; I suspect it would take some kind of parsing of a PDF version of the book, and post-processing of the ePub based on that parsing.

But, before I decide whether it's worth even trying, I thought I'd ask the group whether anyone has thought about approaches to the problem.

Best regards,
Dick Hamilton
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XML Press
XML for Technical Communicators
http://xmlpress.net
hamilton@xmlpress.net

On 2/10/15 1:36 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
> Has anyone on the list tackled the challenge of generating a page list for ePub output?
>
> A page list is a mapping of print page numbers to locations in the ePub.

Doesn't the page count depend on the size of the rendering device?

Hi Dick,
I have not actually done it, but I think you should look at using the
intermediate file format that most XSL-FO processors can output. For
example, FOP has:

https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/intermediate.html

That format is an XML rendering of the area tree as pages. It contains
page numbers and ids, so I think you could use it to post process the
epub by matching up ids and inserting page numbers.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 2/10/2015 10:36 AM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
> Has anyone on the list tackled the challenge of generating a page list for ePub output?
>
> A page list is a mapping of print page numbers to locations in the ePub.
>
> I don't see any easy way to do it; I suspect it would take some kind of parsing of a PDF version of the book, and post-processing of the ePub based on that parsing.
>
> But, before I decide whether it's worth even trying, I thought I'd ask the group whether anyone has thought about approaches to the problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Dick Hamilton
> -------
> XML Press
> XML for Technical Communicators
> http://xmlpress.net
> hamilton@xmlpress.net
>
>
>
>
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