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.

   



47 Stories by Leon Atherton

How to draw SVG on HTML 5 Canvas and why you might want to

One of the limitations of shapes in HTML 5 canvas is that only one fill rule is supported, which can lead to shapes not...
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SVG shapes not working in Firefox but fine in Chrome, Safari, IE & Opera?

After taking a sneak peak at upcoming PDF to SVG functionality for our Online Converter, I was disappointed to see that shapes were not...
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Why canvas is not a self closing HTML5 tag

While debugging a page produced by our PDF to HTML5 Converter, I noticed that Firefox was showing some of the tags in the HTML...
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PDF to HTML5 conversion – No Even-Odd Winding Rule for filling shapes in HTML5? – Part 2

This is part 2 on this subject. If you haven’t already read it, please read part 1 to understand the winding problem. So to...
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PDF to HTML5 conversion – No Even-Odd Winding Rule for filling shapes in HTML5? – Part 1

When filling shapes in PDFs (and lots of other technologies) you get a choice between using the Even-Odd or the Non-Zero winding rule. For...
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