- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:56:43 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
James Elmore wrote: > > I know that it's not their job, or business, to produce CSS from PDF > files. But are there any CSS group members working for Adobe who could > 'lean' on their bosses to allow CSS capture the way they allow HTML? The HTML is recoverable because it has been explicitly added in the tagging process (e.g. by copying the structural markup from a source MSWord document). If you have to generate HTML from untagged PDF, it is likely to be a presentational approximation. The style isn't recoverable, because there is no indirection of the styling information, and because its theoretically possible for a single structural element to have multiple styles. Ignoring the second problem, you could recover styles, but only at the level of id based selectors for every element. PDF is a final form document and only the revisable forms would have style sheets. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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