Thread: Do you consider PDF to be a legitimate "e-book" format? Why or why not?
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Old 01-22-2008, 12:17 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
I believe this is an error. The tagged PDF is a superset, not a subset. Tagging can be added after the fact by some tools (ActiveSync) and can even be done on the fly (PalmPDF) without altering the document. Tagging can be turned off dynamically when needed and the original document will be displayed looking exactly what it looked like when it was not tagged at all. Tagging is the best of both worlds. You can read the data and when it is important to see the layout you can switch to this mode.

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No tagging does not work automatically for all but the simplest of PDF documents (and those documents can be represented perfectly in a reflowable format). See for example

http://www.webaim.org/techniques/acr...andingtags.php
http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/...ContentID=6067
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