On 11/09/2012 03:05 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Bill Meahan mailto:subscribed_lists@meahan.net> wrote:

I note there are two different ways of handling a chapter:

The traditional \chapter{mytitle}

\startchapter[title=mytitle, ownnumber=N ..] blah \stopchapter

Is there any difference or advantage/disadvatage to using one method or the other?

\start<section>.. \stop<section>: tagged pdf. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Epub

I don't quite understand the difference between "tagged pdf" and what you get when you use a TOC. I get the expected bookmarks (PDF TOC) using the latter. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

On 11/09/2012 01:25 PM, luigi scarso wrote:

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Bill Meahan mailto:subscribed_lists@meahan.net> wrote:

I don't quite understand the difference between "tagged pdf" and what you get when you use a TOC. I get the expected bookmarks (PDF TOC) using the latter.

You need acrobat (the adobe reader is not enough, but I still have to check the reader 11) to see the tagged content.

Got it. Sadly, recent versions of Acrobat do not (currently) run on Linux and there are problems running it via WINE. I do have a legal copy of Acrobat 8 around here. Perhaps that will work. Adobe stopped supporting Linux after Acrobat 9 :( -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

On 11/9/2012 7:32 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:

On 11/09/2012 01:25 PM, luigi scarso wrote:

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On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Bill Meahan mailto:subscribed_lists@meahan.net> wrote:

I don't quite understand the difference between "tagged pdf" and what you get when you use a TOC. I get the expected bookmarks (PDF TOC) using the latter.

You need acrobat (the adobe reader is not enough, but I still have to check the reader 11) to see the tagged content.

Got it. Sadly, recent versions of Acrobat do not (currently) run on Linux and there are problems running it via WINE. I do have a legal copy of Acrobat 8 around here. Perhaps that will work.

Adobe stopped supporting Linux after Acrobat 9 :(

After I had upgraded to windows 8 and was reinstalling acrobat reader I found out that there was a new version. (With previous versions I was participating in the beta test program. And normally Martin announces new acrobats so maybe the new version has a very low profile.) Unfortunately the pdfopen program cannot handle acrobat reader xi (but I use full acrobat x so it's no big deal). As far as I can see, the reader does not support showing tags (which is weird as it's part of accessibility). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Sat 10 Nov 2012, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

Given our interest in pdf production, perhaps we ought to be (more) involved in opensource pdf viewer development? But I suppose that acrobat and adobe reader remain the tools having the most widespread use.

It would certainly be nice to have an open-source PDF viewer approaching Adove Reader's capabilities. I've never seen any moves in this direction, though. The impression I have is that 99% of people only need very basic PDF viewer functionality, and regard most of Adobe Reader's features as bloat. Personally I find this worrying: I'm using Adobe Reader 9 on Linux, Adobe aren't going to release any newer Linux versions, and at some point I will run into a feature I need which is not supported either by AR9 or any open-source viewer. Pont