Towards structured, block-based PDF
The Portable Document Format (PDF), defined by Adobe Systems Inc. as the basis of its Acrobat product range, is discussed in some detail. Particular emphasis is given to its flexible object-oriented structure, which has yet to be fully exploited. It is currently used to represent not logical structu...
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| author | Smith, Philip N. Brailsford, David F. |
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| description | The Portable Document Format (PDF), defined by Adobe Systems Inc. as the basis of its Acrobat product range, is discussed in some detail. Particular emphasis is given to its flexible object-oriented structure, which has yet to be fully exploited. It is currently used to represent not logical structure but simply a series of pages and associated resources. A definition of an Encapsulated PDF (EPDF) is presented, in which EPDF blocks carry with them their own resource requirements, together with geometrical and logical information. A block formatter called Juggler is described which can lay out EPDF blocks from various sources onto new pages. Future revisions of PDF supporting uniquely-named EPDF blocks tagged with semantic information would assist in composite-pagemakeup and could even lead to fully revisable PDF. |
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| spelling | nottingham-3012020-05-04T20:33:37Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/301/ Towards structured, block-based PDF Smith, Philip N. Brailsford, David F. The Portable Document Format (PDF), defined by Adobe Systems Inc. as the basis of its Acrobat product range, is discussed in some detail. Particular emphasis is given to its flexible object-oriented structure, which has yet to be fully exploited. It is currently used to represent not logical structure but simply a series of pages and associated resources. A definition of an Encapsulated PDF (EPDF) is presented, in which EPDF blocks carry with them their own resource requirements, together with geometrical and logical information. A block formatter called Juggler is described which can lay out EPDF blocks from various sources onto new pages. Future revisions of PDF supporting uniquely-named EPDF blocks tagged with semantic information would assist in composite-pagemakeup and could even lead to fully revisable PDF. John Wiley Ltd Brailsford, David F. Furuta, Richard K. 1995 Article PeerReviewed Smith, Philip N. and Brailsford, David F. (1995) Towards structured, block-based PDF. Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design, 8 (3). pp. 153-165. PDF Encapsulated Object-oriented Blocks Structured documents Document Structures |
| spellingShingle | PDF Encapsulated Object-oriented Blocks Structured documents Document Structures Smith, Philip N. Brailsford, David F. Towards structured, block-based PDF |
| title | Towards structured, block-based PDF |
| title_full | Towards structured, block-based PDF |
| title_fullStr | Towards structured, block-based PDF |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards structured, block-based PDF |
| title_short | Towards structured, block-based PDF |
| title_sort | towards structured, block-based pdf |
| topic | PDF Encapsulated Object-oriented Blocks Structured documents Document Structures |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/301/ |