On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:07:21 Peter Palmreuther wrote: > On 12/29/10 10:30 pm, jwminer at accessvt.com wrote: > > 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. > >> > >> AFAIK text reflow and PDF are not compatible. For text reflow > >> you should > >> probably use HTML or XHTML. > > > > A PDF can be read without any reference to a browser. I wouldn't > > call it a "Web product." Some governments require certain > > documents to be readable by the visually impaired with a screen > > reader. > > Thanks. That's the direction my /UA-question was targeted to. > I'm working in public service and we're strongly requested (some > try to make this "enforced") to make electronic documents > accessible to anybody. Especially with a certain amount of our > employees being visually impaired we have to take care about this > issue. > > > While Scribus is not designed to be an HTML creator or editor, it > > certainly offers options for reading PDFs in a browser. Given the > > legal requirements for some documents, I think Peter raised an > > important issue. > > OK. So I'm not completely alone. It would be really nice if > something in the direction of "Scribus is not only designed to > produce PDF files sent to a printing company" would make it into > the roadmap :-)
I still think that PDF is not reflowable, and if that is a requirement then HTML or XHTML should be used. Is someone has contrary information I would appreciate a pointer to the source. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
