marcello said:

You are being narrow-minded about this.

that's an _incredibly_ stupid thing to say.

What if the user wanted to see *only* the page numbers. Your reader does not support that.

well, my program doesn't support original-page-numbers _at_all_ yet, we're talking about what i _will_ implement, so i don't see how you can assert anything on the matter. i'm not sure i understand the request, anyway -- you want to see _only_ the page numbers, nothing else?, i don't see any utility in that, you would have to explain it, but since the user can control the color of the text, they'd just match it to the background color to make it "disappear" -- but if it is something that readers will want, i _will_ support it. -bowerbird