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Old 01-22-2008, 02:26 PM   #81
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
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
I would agree that tagging after the fact is not nearly as good as intelligent tagging but that was not my point. My point was that adding tagging does not decrease the usability and intelligence of the document itself as your post implied or actually directly stated.

I write my documents in Framemaker and always generate tagged PDF's. These are intelligent tags as they are done in the source and in no way detract from the intelligence in the document itself. It displays perfectly in full page display mode and it flows very well in reflow mode although the shrinking of some images can make the results not quite as good. I can, of course, switch back to full page whenever needed to see the original structure.

I still contend that the reason everybody complains about PDF viewing is mostly because of the deplorable PDF viewers that they are using to try and view the stuff. E-Ink itself is not as suited to scrolling and panning but that is a different issue.

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