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Old 03-05-2009, 05:36 PM   #164
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
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.

Dale
Thanks for the explanation Dale. I haven't had much of a need for PDF, except quick and dirty print>pdf on the Mac and haven't really looked into it very much. I'll check out the Wiki now.
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