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Old 09-02-2015, 05:15 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Little.Egret View Post
Thanks.

Given that clue I find that LibreOffice writer has that or similar code..

File/ Export as PDF (I missed it since I was looking at File/ Save As).

I also checked the Android App - Adobe Acrobat DC - PDF Reader (Adobe Systems) and found it could do reflow if asked (view menu) even on a random PDF

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-Acroba...dp/B004SD5GZ4/

So can the desktop version, even for an untagged document.

View/ Zoom/ Reflow or Ctrl+4 (on/off)

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/usin...-features.html

So you can zoom to 400% then reflow. The text size will not change.
Yes, today there are PDF display engines that tag on the fly so as to not need a tagged document, especially Adobe engines are good at this. However, my experience is that proper tagging will provide better and more consistent results. Smart tagging recognizes headers and special formatting needs based on styles in the source document to produce consistent results.

PDF reflow can even flow around images in the text although again I have seen some of these flows reduced to single letter wide that looks like vertical printing. You have no control over the looks of such documents but they can be read!

There is more on this topic in our wiki under PDF.

Dale

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