Prepagination

[kovidgoyal]

I'm in Washington state visiting my wife at the moment.

[ees]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Look at the media.xml file on your device. It contains the prepagination information (hex encoded IIRC). LRF is a (partially) reflowable format. What the pre pagination does is tell the reader how many screens of text are there at a particular font size and where in the file each screen starts and ends. So to duplicate that, you have to layout the text on an in-memory screen exactly as the reader would. If you are a little off, that will result in missing lines of text, as you see when you replace the fonts on the reader with others that have different metrics and then try to use a pre paginated book

Thanks for the explanation, it's making much more sense.

I did look at the media.xml file, and I see the pagination information (likely Base64 encoded).

It's not immediately clear to me how to deduce Sony's precise rendering algorithm, short of a relatively brute-force approach of disassembly the relevant Sony DLLs. That might be a bit more than I can sign up for...at least for now.

Thanks again!
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[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I just spent the last hour shoving my wife's car out of a snowed in parking lot. I've had it with snow! Iguess ees nick reminded me of a snowflake or something

Dude, I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. It's been snowing since October!!! and we still have 3 or 4 months of snow and cold weather to look forward to.

The cars in our apartment parking lot are already higher than the parking space bumper and you can't see the white/yellow stripes on the roads anymore.

but yeah shoveling snow is no fun. I had to do the same to get my car out of it's parking space too.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by Amalthia

Dude, I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. It's been snowing since October!!! and we still have 3 or 4 months of snow and cold weather to look forward to.

The cars in our apartment parking lot are already higher than the parking space bumper and you can't see the white/yellow stripes on the roads anymore.

but yeah shoveling snow is no fun. I had to do the same to get my car out of it's parking space too.

You sound positively gleeful. Personally, I grew up in the tropics.