RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - gpdf

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 09:50, Chipzz wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003 Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> 
> > > there are some _serious_ accessibility issues around PDF.
> >
> > Are these problems with the PDF format or with the gpdf PDF viewer? Is this
> > anything that should influence our decision to add gpdf to GNOME?
> 
> I think the issue is with the formmat, namely that PS and PDF store lit-
> tle (or no) structural information (eg, PS stores the position of indi-
> vidual letters IIRC, but not the relationship between those letters).

There's quite a large amount of the PDF-1.4 spec related to trying
to make the contents accessible. Whether 

 A) It is done in a useful manner
 B) Any content generators implement it

Is something that I don't know.

Regards,
                                         Owen
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