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Originally Posted by Zeek
My understanding is that Acrobat can take existing PDF files and make them "re-flowable" by using the "make accessible" function. Have you tried this? I would think it would work pretty well for text documents.
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This seems to be a property of the reading device as well as the original formation of the document using "tags." The following is from the Help system on Acrobat 7:
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The tagged Adobe PDF document reflows one page at a time in the document window. You can't save or print documents when they're in a reflowed state.
Note: Downloading a PDF file to a handheld device requires Adobe Reader for Palm OS. Adobe Reader for Palm OS has two components: the desktop program you install on your computer, and the reader application that installs on your handheld device the next time you synchronize it with your computer.
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I created a short (5 page) document based on a letter sized page with tagging and saved it to disk. I could reflow the document on the PC. When I moved it to the Sony Reader it stayed too small to read. I repeated this with a page size scalled to the Sony. The resultant PDF was very easy to read. As always the Size button did little. I could not find any change in the actions of tagged and non-tagged documents on the Sony with the current firmware.
Thus all we can do is to create "tags" as to the sequence of paragraphs in the PDF and hope that Sony gets revised code from Adobe to implement reflowing in a future upgrade.