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Old 07-27-2013, 08:02 PM   #26
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by Rob Lister View Post
What about a non-tiny image? An image of a formula can be as large as the screen of the reader. It can be rendered in either absolute or relative terms. It can be as crisp and concise as any font.

I can see that it would be useful to include the creation functionality in epub production software, but in terms of rendering, I don't see why a jpeg would not suffice.
Because the equations should properly flow to fit the space available, not just be a statically rendered image scaled to different sizes.

You would ask this question, would you?:
"Why do you need reflowable text formats? Why not just take a PDF file and zoom in as you need to?"
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