Text display method and device for electronic book reader

Abstract

The invention provides a text display method and a text display device for an e-book reader. The method includes: recording data about character widths of each character in a vector font library under different font sizes and display setting information of a text, dividing the data of the text into more than one data segment, pre-typesetting each data segment according to the display setting information, determining corresponding starting and ending positions of each display text page displayed on a display screen in the text, searching the starting and ending positions of data corresponding to one received display text page requiring display, reading out the data between the starting position and the ending position, converting the data between the starting position and the ending position into code data, searching corresponding character images from the vector font library according to the code data, and displaying the character images on the display screen according to the display setting information. The device uses the method for displaying texts of e-books. The text display method and the text display device are capable of achieving rapid paging during e-book reading and effectively avoiding content discontinuity or messy codes during paging.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the text processing field of an electronic book reading device, in particular, a text display method of an electronic book reader and a device using the method. Background technique [0002] Many existing electronic devices, such as mobile phones, tablet computers, etc., have the function of reading e-books. These electronic devices are all equipped with display screens to display the text of e-books, so they can be called e-book readers. [0003] The memory of the e-book reader stores the text of the e-book. These texts are usually coded texts and cannot be read directly by people. The e-book reader usually needs to convert the text into specific characters and display it on the display screen. What people see through the display screen are all characters after code conversion. [0004] Usually, the amount of text data in an e-book is large, and it is difficult to display all of it on one screen of the display screen. Therefo...

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[0008] However, the estimated page numbers are often inconsistent with the actual typesetting page numbers, resulting in incorrect content displayed after people turn the pages, and eventually appearing that the content of the e-book is discontinuous or has repeated parts or There is a problem of large blank spaces, and when reading texts of various codes in different languages, garbled characters are prone to appear, which affects people's reading

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