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i'm working on a visualization of a text file with 100k lines, max 1k characters/line, as one large, navigable image.

similar to the bleak house example in blaise's ted talk demo of seadragon, but even simpler -- basically just the view from cat filename.txt, but with a view that's zoomed out so that the whole file is initially visible (each line fitting on the page width, without wordwrap) and can then be zoomed in on.

is this currently possible with seadragon? if not, any ideas on how i can attempt it?

(oh, and including hyperlinks would be great -- but i don't expect that'll be possible.)

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A second vote for the answer to this question... I'd like to use seadragon or other technology to achieve a similar effect.

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Not sure you'll be able to go up to 100k lines but the OpenZoom SDK with the Flash Text Engine could get you pretty far.

Example http://gasi.ch/go/openzoom-fte/

Source Code http://github.com/openzoom/sdk/raw/be50b3f1062e68d88dcf20f412e6fdb9b7320ed3/examples/flex/flash-text-engine/src/FlashTextEngine.mxml

Daniel Gasienica