\section*{Abstract}

At the fundamental level, a document is a means to convey information. The limitations on a digital document format therefore restrict the types and quality of information that can be communicated. Whilst modern document formats are now able to include increasingly complex dynamic content, they still suffer from early views of a document as a static page; to be viewed at a fixed scale and position. In this report, we focus on the limitations of modern document formats (including PDF, PostScript, SVG) with regards to the level of detail, or precision at which primatives can be drawn. We propose a research project to investigate whether it is possible to obtain an ``infinite precision'' document format, capable of including primitives created at an arbitrary level of zoom.

{\bf Keywords:} \emph{document formats, precision, floating point, vector images, graphics, OpenGL, VHDL, PostScript, PDF, {\TeX}, SVG, HTML5, Javascript }

{\bf Note:} This report is best viewed digitally as a PDF. The digital version is available at \url{http://szmoore.net/ipdf/documents/LitReviewSam.pdf}

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