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{{Short description|Electronic document with fluid layout}}
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A '''reflowable document''' is a type of [[electronic document]] that can adapt its [[presentation]] to the [[output device]]. Typical [[prepress]] or fixed page size output formats like [[PostScript]] or [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] are not reflowable during the actual printing process because the page is not resized. For [[end user]]s, the [[World Wide Web]] standard, [[HTML]] is a reflowable format<ref name=parc>{{Cite book|publisher=World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.|isbn=981-238-582-7|year=2003|url=
In contrast to end user terminology, the notion of reflow is sometimes used to discuss [[desktop publishing]] program features for [[printing|print]] publication [[page layout]] such as automatically balancing the amount of text in a number of columns.<ref name=ms/>
Reflow is not limited to text; 21st century [[scorewriter]]s 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:
* [[
* [[Windows Presentation Foundation]] (WPF) introduced [[XAML]]-based documents together with a viewer call "SinglePageViewer" that can reflow any WPF objects. However the [[Open XML Paper Specification|XPS]] document standard also introduced by Microsoft with WPF does not support reflow.<ref name=ms>{{Cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480192.aspx|
* Tagged [[PDF]] documents can contain an additional data layer that (among other things) allows content to reflow within the boundaries of one original page.<ref>{{Cite book|url=
* [[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 (company)|Amazon]]'s [[Kindle File Format]], but only in its newest version.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GULSQMHU5MNH4EZM|title=MOBI Support for Reflowable eBooks Frequently Asked Questions| publisher=Amazon| accessdate=2022-05-04}}</ref>
[[Xerox PARC]] has developed an experimental system that allows the reflow of any document using [[Optical character recognition|OCR]] layout analysis at word-level.<ref name=parc/>
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