- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:57:24 +0200 (CEST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 19 Apr, David Woolley wrote:
> However even PDF can also do a lot better than the typical PDF you see.
> Typical PDF has nearly every character individually placed and no
> space characters, but the design of PDF doesn't require that, it is
> the PostScript print drivers and word processors that cause the problem.
Now I'm atleast lost - how can the Postscript print driver be the
cause of a problem like this ?
There is nothing that says a PDF document ("tagged", I believe they
call it) can't use non-absolutely positioned letters and then
translate that to absolutely positioned letters in Postscript prior to
printing.
This is what happens to HTML with a printer stylesheet, after all
(given that the printer handles Postscript).
PDF have flaws, but a properly "marked up" PDF file isn't all that
much different in principle than a properly marked up HTML document.
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