Peter P. wrote: > On 12/29/10 9:38 pm, John Culleton wrote: >> Scribus is aimed primarily at printed rather than web products, >> although there is a choice when you produce a pdf. For one thing >> the >> typical pdf produced by Scribus is very large. > > As I'm talking about a primarily text based newsletter I think file > size will > not be the big problem. > But what alternatives exist to create an electronic newsletter that > good to > read (literally!) by people not necessarily used to electronic > media?
[snip] > So we're again at "creating a printable product". The UA-thing is > something > additional for the visually disabled recipient ... The main focus of > my > initial request should have been read on "template creation", > dynamic content > and scrapbook ... [snip] > If a PDF contains all structural information necessary to be ABLE to > reflow > text a "not PDF"-view on the information is possible. This is useful > for > eBooks as well as necessary for something like screen readers. > And if the text for example contains hyphenation information a > screen reader > can flawlessly read the text. > I think we can agree a blind person does not care about 100% defined > page > layout PDF offers. OTOH it's not sensible to be enforced to create > two > documents ... One for people gaining from efforts put into good > typesetting > and one containing only pure information for those who use a screen > reader. If you don't get an answer about PDF/UA here, try desktoppublishingforum.com I believe there are members who are familiar with producing documents that are usable by screen readers. We've had discussion on that topic in the past. --Judy M. USA Registered Linux User #397786 Being productive with VectorLinux 6.0 SOHO
