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Originally Posted by Blossom
A Topaz book is just a bunch of SVG images.
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No it isn't, SVG is nowhere involved: it is a custom file format. Also, if it was a bunch of page images the file size would be enormous. It's a bunch of images corresponding to *individual glyphs* (generally letters in particular fonts), plus larger images for things like in-book images and perhaps the occasional tea-stain on the page. This is all automatically isolated from scans of the book by horribly computationally intensive software up at Amazon (which I still want a copy of even if it would take a year to Topazify a book on my hardware, because the job it does is so seriously nifty). Font resizing and the resulting automatic reflowing are even trickier to get right, but they did it.
(If it was just SVG images, there's no way resizing and reflowing would work.)