Re: Acrobat PDF & Accessibility

• From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:59:14 +0000 (GMT)
• To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200112202259.fBKMxEw21405@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

> 
> A PDF converted from Word or PageMaker or another office application will
> contain real text behind the PostScript/image facade.  If you use Adobe

There's no image facade in that case; the image is generated on the fly
in Acrobat Reader (or Ghostscript, etc.), in the same way that IE4 generates
an image of the HTML+CSS on the fly, and the Adobe plug-in does it for
SVG.

Received on Thursday, 20 December 2001 18:12:05 UTC