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From: L Snider
Date: Dec 5, 2014 7:16AM

Hi Duff,

It should be interesting to see what I find. I am also looking at Daisy
too, but with Daisy and ePub looking to try and merge that complicates
things-or maybe it really helps me!

Oh, I didn't know that about PDF 2.0...good to know. So that would mean
that the Daisy tags could be used for Iphone, Android and Mac users...hmmm
that I like...

How about PDF/A or UA? I know you know about those things...I usually use
PDF/A but have been testing PDF/UA as well. Any information you can provide
about those is hugely appreciated!

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Duff Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Lisa,
>
> Leaving aside tables, etc, results may depend on the question of
> fixed-page EPUB or not. And as Olaf pointed out, it turns out that people
> like fixed-page EPUB in many cases. In these cases they will be dealing
> with how paragraphs and other content break between pages. There's no
> avoiding it.
>
> Back to the best-practice question: I guess EPUB-oriented publishing tools
> would include this limitation naturally, and simply not make it possible to
> author the types of content I'm referring to.
>
> I look forward to hearing the results of your testing!
>
> FWIW, PDF 2.0 will provide for comprehensive mapping of DAISY tags to PDF
> structure elements - including for such bugbears as page numbers.
>
> Duff.
>
> On Dec 3, 2014, at 12:58, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Duff,
> >
> > I need to do a ton of testing with this one...I can see where documents
> > that are like books in terms of layout and structure may be okay, but
> then
> > if one has a complex PDF with tables, images spanning, oh boy....
> >
> > I also see that Daisy and ePub are looking at collaborating (started at
> the
> > beginning of 2014), now that is cool! Would like to see the result of
> > that...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Lisa
>
> > > >