14. A method for displaying a digital document, the method comprising: retrieving, via a processing system, a digital document including embedded reference page numbers that correspond to page numbers of a reference document; assigning, via the processing system, a factional page number to each page of the digital document to be rendered based on the characteristics of a display that change the amount of content that can fit on the display; and rendering, via the processing system, the digital document on the display including a reference page number and a fractional page number corresponding to each rendered page of a portion of a page of the reference document, wherein the fractional page number is updated in response to the characteristics of the display being changed, wherein the characteristics include at least one from the group of screen size, window size, font size, line spacing, form factor, and resolution.
14. A method for displaying a digital document, the method comprising: retrieving, via a processing system, a digital document including embedded reference page numbers that correspond to page numbers of a reference document; assigning, via the processing system, a factional page number to each page of the digital document to be rendered based on the characteristics of a display that change the amount of content that can fit on the display; and rendering, via the processing system, the digital document on the display including a reference page number and a fractional page number corresponding to each rendered page of a portion of a page of the reference document, wherein the fractional page number is updated in response to the characteristics of the display being changed, wherein the characteristics include at least one from the group of screen size, window size, font size, line spacing, form factor, and resolution. 17. The method of claim 14 , wherein assigning fractional page numbers comprises assigning a decimal representation corresponding to a portion of a page of the reference document, wherein the decimal representation is based on a count of characters for the text and an area for non-text objects and wherein each character and non-text object has an index computed during rendering of the digital document.