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Originally Posted by starrigger
Why format to an arbitrary screen size, when a tagged PDF file will resize to any screen--and let the user adjust the type size?
(I'm making an assumption here, which is that the Adobe on the Sony Reader supports PDF reflow the way a PDA does. I don't actually know if that's true.)
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It isn't clear that Secure Adobe PDFs even have tags (we can't tell because they are encrypted). In any case, Adobe Digital Editions ignores tags - from Jim Lester of Adobe Systems (
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Also there was an earlier question about reflow. The PDF does not have to be "tagged" to be reflowed.(and we actually ignore the tags if we they are there - we got better results that way) Because of this there are cases were we will really mangle the PDF during reflow because the text flow in the PDF do not match what you would expect as reading order, but other than the edge cases the results are pretty good.
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I think Jim may be implying that tags help the reflowing (by disallowing many bad edge cases), even though they are not used. I don't have a PRS-505, but its reflowing looks pretty good in the examples I have seen. The problem is that all reflowing stops at every single page boundary in the original document and this simply isn't reflowing as it is normally understood.