- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:11:32 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> import it into word or a dos word processor or my favorite linux/unix > flavor we'd have something. PDF is intended to be a final form document (although you can replace pages). Most web site designers would also like final form documents, it makes controlling layout much easier. Final form is also like by the lawyers, both because layout may be considered legally significant and because it is less easy to plagiarise. However, one of the design principles of PDF is that it should be possible to extract the text part as plain text. As indicated in another reply, the fact that this is unreliable is more to do with the word-processors than with PDF. Note that SVG is more like final form in this respect; it doesn't support reflowing of text and physically places the text. Also, the only guaranteed accessibility feature of SVG is the ability to recover plain text, which is much the same as PDF (it does support grouping, which has only just been added to PDF).
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