View Single Post
Old 01-18-2013, 11:23 AM   #14
DiapDealer
Grand Sorcerer
DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DiapDealer ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
DiapDealer's Avatar
 
Posts: 28,630
Karma: 204624552
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
Actually SVG is involved. Those individual glyphs you mentioned (which are not always individual characters) are drawn using SVG coordinates. A "dictionary" of all the SVG glyphs needed for the book exists within the topaz book. "Pages" are constructed on the fly by a map that consists of pointers to the necessary SVG glyph definitions in the dictionary and which "places" those glyphs in the correct order. Which is how reflow (and hyphenation) is achieved. Resizing is possible because, well... the S in SVG stands for "scalable," quite frankly.
DiapDealer is offline   Reply With Quote