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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Reflowable has been around for years from Adobe.
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Since only the latest version of Acrobat (for Windows) supports it, reflowable support hasn't been around for "years".
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
It does eat resources to display properly. I have not seen that the size of the file increases significantly.
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I use Open Office.org to make PDFs. It supports tagged PDFs. A tagged PDF is nearly double the size of a non-tagged PDF.
Now, it could be OpenOffice's PDF creation software isn't working quite right, but it's all I have to go by since tagged PDFs are rather rare in the wild.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
The bloat, if you want to call it that, is that the reader itself becomes much more complicated.
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The bloat I am referring to is the PDF file itself. A document that starts off as a 300K ODF document comes to over 1000K as a non-tagged PDF and nearly 1800K as a tagged PDF. File bloat is what I'm talking about.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Third party readers don't support it because they aren't really committed to PDF.
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So xpdf, an open source program for the viewing of PDFs, isn't "committed" to PDF?
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Current Palms have enough horsepower and the only 3rd party reflowable product in existence is now a free download for Palm devices. It is called PalmPDF I believe.
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Tried PalmPDF. Useless for reading PDFs unless the PDF is formatted for the Palm. PalmPDF is based on xpdf and, at least the version I tried, did not support reflow.