- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:16:50 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> that's a less than useful answer in that it doesn't really give a true > picture of the situation. Yes, it's true that AT cannot read pdf documents > created using Acrobat 4 but (correct me if I'm wrong) it *is* possible using That's not really true. A design aim of PDF was that you could extract text from it. Some authoring tools abuse it in a way that makes this difficult (and the original machine readable source has to be text). Also, PDF has what is now calls digital rights management in mind, and provides ways of instructing the browser not to let you access the machine readable text. This latter point could be seen as a weakness in HTML and SVG, that may discourage its use where intellectual property is a big issue. > version 5 to produce documents that are accessible if the creator knows what > they're doing. We are now in a situation where pdf holds similar ground to Version 5 adds a feature to allow deep structure to be represented, but most HTML pages don't have deep structure correctly represented! Original confidentiality notice assumed in error.
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