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Old 01-05-2018, 11:15 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
I assume it would have to be a Tagged PDF.

Does InDesign output Tagged PDF by default? Or does it output PDF/A by default (I doubt it)?

https://indesignsecrets.com/reasons-...tagged-pdf.php
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/usi...ring-pdfs.html

I bet most of the people using InDesign don't even think about it, and just continue to export PDFs without that functionality.

I opened up a handful of InDesign files I got from publishers and went looking into the tags. They didn't exist.
Ditto. I tried a BUNCH of PDFs/INDD files, and NONE were tagged for reflowability. It's...nobody thinks about it, for the obvious reasons. PDF is intended to be a PRINT layout (or, conveyable layout) option--so that the content is always the same, n'est-ce pas? If you want reflowable, you make a different file type.

Not spurning the idea of "reflowable" PDFs, but to me, it's round peg-square hole. Wrong tool for the job.

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