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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I use framemaker and I have never seen the file size double based on adding tags What version framemaker? What was the original source format. What problems did you observe view tagged files in untagged mode?
Dale
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I composed an answer to these questions a couple of days ago, and now I don't see it anywhere. I must have previewed it and never hit Submit.
I used Framemaker 7, with Adobe Distiller, from a Word doc. (Actually, differently formatted Word docs for the tagged and untagged versions. For the untagged, I used Times New Roman and formatted so it would look more or less like a book page on a big screen. For the tagged, I removed the headers, etc., and changed the font to Verdana.)
I've had no problems viewing tagged files in untagged mode.
The increase in file size was the same in Framemaker and Open Office. And was consistent with an article I'd read about tagging on the Adobe site. Basically, when I use Framemaker to print to a tagged PDF, it takes a long time to crunch the file. If it goes fast, and makes a file that isn't bigger, then I've done something wrong and the tagging has failed.
It turns out you can't test the tagging on your desktop Reader, because it can generally reflow even without the tagging. And you have to be careful about testing it on a PDA, because in newer setups, the tagging is added during the transfer to the device. (My PDA can't do that, so it's a good test bed.)