Experimenting with Tables in PDF

So far, so good. But it gets a bit trickier from here. According to Adobe, tagged PDF documents can support markup for data tables, including identification of row and column headers and association of data cells with those headers. (See Chapter 11 for details on how to mark up data tables in HTML using id and headers attributes on the <th> and <td>elements, respectively.) According to Adobe’s online documentation, PDF now allows electronic publishers to

. . . preserve markup in tables in an Adobe PDF file, including table rows, header cells and data cells. Acrobat 5.0 for Windows enables users to create tagged Adobe PDF files automatically from Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows applications. If the author defines ...

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