Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

   



51 Stories by Leon Atherton

How to fill shapes on HTML5 Canvas using EvenOdd winding rule with SVG

A little over a year ago, I wrote a short series of articles that talked about Canvas’ inability to fill shapes using the even-odd...
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Measure content performance with Analytics – Why convert PDF magazines to HTML5? Part 7

One of the things that all good content producers rely heavily on is analytics. Analytics give you the opportunity to see what is doing...
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How does Image Aspect Ratio work in SVG

SVG is a fantastic technology that is becoming increasingly popular as our web browsers get increasingly more powerful. I actually think that SVG offers...
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What is the optimum number of lines of code written per day?

I recently spent a few days working on rewriting the way that settings get passed into one of our products. This was a slight...
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What size is 100% scaling in PDF?

As with the majority of the PDF specification, what determines the physical size of your PDF is very complicated but also very powerful, and...
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Why we are planning to remove Canvas in our PDF to HTML5 Converter…

Ever since we began writing our PDF to HTML5 converter a little over 2 years ago, we have chosen the HTML5 canvas as the...
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