Reflowable document
A reflowable document is a type of
electronic page
format.
In contrast to end user terminology, the notion of reflow is sometimes used to discuss desktop publishing program features for print publication page layout such as automatically balancing the amount of text in a number of columns.[2]
Reflow is not limited to text; 21st century scorewriters enable music notation to be reflowed between systems and pages in a similar way to how text reflows between lines and pages.
Examples
Besides HTML, commercially available systems include:
- inline images, in many ways similar to a stripped-down HTML.[3]
- Tagged PDF documents can contain an additional data layer that (among other things) allows content to reflow within the boundaries of one original page.[4][5]
- FictionBook is a free reflowable format by design. It does not specify the appearance of a document; instead, it describes its structure. For example, there are special tags for epigraphs, verses and quotations.
- Amazon's Kindle File Format, but only in its newest version.[6]
Xerox PARC has developed an experimental system that allows the reflow of any document using OCR layout analysis at word-level.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 981-238-582-7.
- ^ MSDN. Microsoft. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-470-65098-1.
- ISBN 978-1-59059-638-8.
- Adobe Systems. Archived from the original(PDF) on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ "MOBI Support for Reflowable eBooks Frequently Asked Questions". Amazon. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
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