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• • December 16, 2013 at 4:44 pm #66438
    James Heisig

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    I see that the latest Kindle books show absolute page numbers (useful when quoting from an eBook), but I cannot figure out how to do this from within InDesign. Any ideas?

  • July 30, 2014 at 3:10 pm #69781
    Allen Cobb

    Member

    Wow. I just started searching for info on how to set this up, and so far I’ve struck out. I remember seeing something many moons ago (perhaps when the OP posted this), but now I’m stuck.

    If someone could point me to the Kindle documentation on how to set up “actual page numbers”, I’d be much obliged.

    Thanks,

    Allen

  • July 31, 2014 at 1:29 pm #69809
    Aaron Troia

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    I’m not sure if that is possible from within InDesign as I don’t think there is a PageList option even in the Kindle plug-in (which hasn’t seen an update since 2012), though I could be wrong. To insert “real” page numbers you will need to go into the code and insert your page numbers as anchors throughout the text at the page break points as well as add all your page numbers to a pageList to the end of the NCX (ePub2.0.1 documentation for pageLists can be found here https://www.idpf.org/epub/20/spec/OPF_2.0.1_draft.htm#TOC2.4.1.2).

    Aaron

  • July 31, 2014 at 3:20 pm #69813
    Allen Cobb

    Member

    Thanks, Aaron. That’s enough to get me started.

    Allen

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