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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On 12 Dec 2016, at 00:53, Jonathan Fine <<a href="mailto:jfine2358@gmail.com" class="">jfine2358@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Hi Ross<br class="">
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Good to talk with you again. We wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">2. Could a suitable tool create a useful HTML or XML document from a tagged PDF?<br class="">
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Absolutely.<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">3. It there already such a tool?<br class="">
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Yes. Adobe's Acrobat Pro does this already.<br class="">
It also exports into RTF and Word formats.<br class="">
So Tagged PDF provides a good solution for submitting TeX PDFs to a journal that only accepts manuscripts done in M$ Word.<br class="">
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This is interesting. If we can produce (good enough) tagged PDF, we<br class="">
can from this also produce (good enough) HTML, XML and Word documents.<br class="">
And I believe that from (good enough) XML we ought to be able to<br class="">
produce (good enough) tagged PDF.<br class="">
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So we are, in part, also talking about round-tripping typesetting, and<br class="">
LaTeX to XML.<br class="">
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<div class="">Yes; but really only “kind of”.</div>
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<div class="">XML is really just a Meta-format rather than a format in itself.</div>
<div class="">It depends upon just what kind of information you want to have within the XML file.</div>
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<div class="">PDF has a concept of attribute “/O-wner”, which seems to govern where this</div>
<div class="">information can be exported.</div>
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<div class="">Attributes with owner /Layout seem to be exported to HTML, but not to XML-1.00 .</div>
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<div class="">I need to do more exploration into this, as I continue to support more and more LaTeX</div>
<div class="">environments, for Tagged PDF.</div>
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Jonathan<br class="">
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Hope this helps</div>
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