PDF's in mobile devices - Reflow Text?

Hello -
I have seen pdf's in iPhone/Touch displays that reflow text as the user zooms in - very handy for these samll screens.
How does one create a document like that?? My documents are currently opotimized for a larger monitor and are very small when displayed on my iPod Touch Display. While you can zoom in - the text does not reformat to the new display size - so much scrolling is needed.
I have Acrobat 9 Pro - Ver 9.3.1 in Win XP.
Thanks,
Steve

Read about accessibiliy, tags, and reflow in the Acrobat help.

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