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Old 08-28-2009, 02:11 PM   #245
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
Why not? Something has to do the rendering, and so long as we're talking an e-Ink screen, where you don't scroll, but view a page at a time, and switch displays a page at a time, the rendering is done in pages. Why not just upload .tex source, have the rendering engine on the machine itself--TeX is not that resource-intensive as all that--and then at a click of a button you can have it re-render it as if it had changed the page size options to the geometry package or font size options to the document class.

Really? Why bother with yet another format when you can pre-render everything, pack a bunch of .png files properly fitted for screen resolution and levels of gray? Complete "perfection" and total lock-in of the content.

There you go.
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