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Smith, Philip N. and Brailsford, David F. (1995) Towards structured, block-based PDF. Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design, 8 (3). pp. 153-165.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
RIS ID:	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1024611
Additional Information:	Copyright transferred to Univ. of Nottingham in 1998.
Keywords:	PDF, Encapsulated Object-oriented Blocks, Structured documents Document Structures
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Brailsford, Prof David
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2005
Last Modified:	04 May 2020 20:33
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/301

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