Robert O'Connor wrote:
> The large pannable tables are drawn using the large
> pannable image code at runtime in the viewer.

That clears things up. So there is an inverse relation between device bpp
capability and available table space(which seems somewhat ironic).

A problem for the parsers then is that it's hard to determine in advance
whether a particular table will "make it" under the 60K limit, since the
table is rendered by the viewer. The space a particular table occupies also
depends on the current font setting which is unknown at creation time.

The table support and its caveats really need to be communicated clearly to
the user, otherwise people will definitely be disappointed. I tried about a
dozen pages with tables and none of them rendered with 8bpp(which is what I
use because I have a color device). In some cases, like Weather Underground,
I had to drop to 1bpp to get the table to display at all.


Regards
-Laurens

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