Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could do that, but the problem grows expoentially when you take > into account fonts (different font sizes, different character size per > language, etc). Then you have to worry about images. Since each > individual image's height/width isn't stored anywhere in the .pdb we > have to open up each unique record, size it, and find out how it > relates to the text to push the overall size of the page down.
Is there any space in the pdb format for the parser to add this sort of metadata when the document is built? Maybe height could be stored as "so many image pixels plus so many ems" in there, to handle font size shifts. Sorry for not knowing, but I've not been wallowing in the Plucker code for some time and I didn't really understand it that well when I was in there. Idle-loop rendering on the viewer side would be very clever, but I wouldn't even know where to begin with that. -- MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is my home web site. This for Jabber Messaging. How's my writing? Let me know via any of my contact details. _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
