Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide




On 8 Mar 2006, at 16:09, Davyd Madeley wrote:

With Evince being able to search text. Is adding accessbility
information to poppler possible? It would seem to be that having
that information available would be incredibly useful to both GNOME
and KDE.

I dare say it's theoretically possible, the PDF specification supports accessible tagging, and Acrobat Reader 7 reportedly works with Gnopernicus on Solaris and Linux[1]. Peter Korn at Sun is probably a good person to talk to about this, but from what I remember of previous conversations, it's a pretty serious amount of work.

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/korn/20050805

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