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Reflowing the contents of tagged Adobe PDF documents
With Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, you and your readers can reflow the contents of tagged
Adobe PDF documents so that the contents are readable in different-sized devices such as
eBook reading devices. The tagged Adobe PDF document is reflowed one page at a time
in the document window. As a document author, you don’t need to reflow your tagged
Adobe PDF documents before saving them and distributing them to your readers. In fact,
Acrobat and Acrobat Reader don’t save documents in a reflowed state. Instead, reflowing
documents is something that is done by your readers for viewing purposes only.
Note:
The Acrobat Reflow feature works reliably for tagged Adobe PDF documents that
contain Roman language text. It doesn’t work reliably for tagged Adobe PDF documents
that contain Asian language text.
To reflow a tagged Adobe PDF document:
In Acrobat, click the Reflow button
on the toolbar, or choose View > Reflow. To return
to the view of the tagged Adobe PDF document in an unreflowed state, click the Actual
Size button
, the Fit in Window button
, or the Fit Width
button on the toolbar, or
choose a related command from the View menu.
Note:
If your tagged Adobe PDF document doesn’t reflow exactly how you want, you can
check a sequence of words to verify whether they are properly partitioned and insert
special characters such as word breaks to improve the way your document reflows. For
more information, see
“Verifying the sequence of words in Adobe PDF documents” on
page 89
and
“Inserting special characters in Adobe PDF documents” on page 89
.
Editing the reflow order of tagged Adobe PDF documents
Some tagged Adobe PDF documents might not reflow in the order that you want.You can
use the TouchUp Order tool in Acrobat to change the order in which elements are
reflowed on a page of a document, without actually changing the author’s contents or
information in the logical structure tree. For example, you might want to change the
reflow order so that a table that occurs in the middle of a paragraph appears after the
paragraph when the document is reflowed.
To change the reflow order of elements on a page of a tagged Adobe PDF document:
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Go to the page in the document that contains elements of which you want to change
the reflow order.