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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Now you have me thinking, in the absence of a truly one-click solution for ePub creation, Adobe might gain a lot of ground with this reflowable format. If they get some kind of plugin or even a one-click doc-to-reflowPDF app out there they have a chance of stealing everyone's thunder. I wonder if that's what they're planning? For the self-published author this one-click solution would negate a lot of hard work, especially after the work put into the writing. Lots of things to think about.
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Well, many years ago Adobe developed the reflowable PDF so long as the PDF was pre-tagged. I have been making one button pre-tagged PDF's from Framemaker for many years. A little later they developed a Windows PPC version that could post tag a file during the copying process from a PC to the device. This latest technology does not require pretagged PDF files (I am not even sure it uses tags even if they exist but it probably does). Not requiring pretagging means that standard PDF will work. There is on need to change the PDF generation (although some tools make better PDFs than others).
The ADE effort is on the reader side. To reflow a regular PDF document when it is being read. ADE works with any PDF except those that are just a collection of images. (Images cannot be reflowed without OCR and taking them apart, not for the faint of heart.)
The Wiki has a discussion of this subject.
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