Date   : Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:27:08 -0700
From   : Angus Duggan <angus.duggan@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Magazines

Chris Thornley writes:
>
>It also not possible to export any of your acrobat documents into other
>formats. Direct input from word documents etc fails. Acrobat 5 reportable
>better but some say it only as a cosmetic change and bug fixes, and security
>updates for people who bother with digital signatures.

Acrobat 5 is more than cosmetic; it includes a fundamental change to the
imaging model. The PDF 1.4 format also supports much better editability; PDF
1.3 had the concepts of subject threads, but they weren't widely used. PDF
1.4 adds XML metadata tagging, and the ability to re-flow text in tagged PDF
files. I don't know if the OCR (Capture) part of Acrobat 5 is any better; I
only have the Japanese version, and haven't installed it on the machine with
my scanner yet.

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