Re: Documentation Viewer is Buggy (Game Kit)
Re: Documentation Viewer is Buggy (Game Kit)
- Subject: Re: Documentation Viewer is Buggy (Game Kit)
- From: Doug Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:43:21 -0700
> On Jun 28, 2017, at 9:56 AM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Doug Hill <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> Just as an FYI, PDF has great accessibility markup which is supported by
>> many tools. if you use accessibility markup on the PDF, text flow is well
>> specified and text-to-speech works great.
>
> I did not know that! But it explains why selecting blocks of text works fine
> on some docs and terribly on others. Is there a list somewhere of which tools
> support this?
Certainly Acrobat, but other Adobe aps do as well (e.g. InDesign). Other layout
apps like Quark Express also have support for this. Probably any PDF workflow
toolset will also support accessibility, like Enfocus. Googles will probably
enlighten you further.
>> Agreed that reflowing text is not great for PDF. But I’d argue that it might
>> be better to have a document that is readable anywhere with any standard
>> reader. PDF turns out to be great for this kind of thing, particularly where
>> formatting is so important.
>
> So is HTML :) Apple’s DocSets are basically HTML. Actually packaging them as
> ePub would be great since then they could be easily imported into readers
> like iBooks.
Sure, that would be great! Apple can very easily support all these formats with
their current documentation workflow toolset, and supply document formats that
developers ask for.
Doug Hill
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