RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - gpdf

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 14:44, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Bill Haneman [mailto:bill haneman sun com] 
> > On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 14:24, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 09:15, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > > >   gpdf - An xpdf-based PDF viewer.
> > > > >   http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpdf/
> > 
> > I think this is a good (and very important!) accessibility 
> > candidate
> 
> Do you mean it helps accessibility as is, or is a candidate for
> accessibility work to be done on it?

The latter; access to PDF docs is a very often requested feature, but
the current implementation doesn't make it easy.

- Bill
> > but
> > 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?
> 
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc usa net
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