[orca-list] a suggestion to solve pdf reading with orca.

["Krishnakant Mane" <hackingkk gmail com>]

hello all,
I know this issue has come up before and I personally brought it up many times.
However after what willi explained me off the list, I have been
thinking about it.
The issue is with reading pdf files through any free software pdf reader.
We now know the problem with evince pdf reader.

It is very unfortunate that the developers did not consider this very important.
Any ways the bug is in the processs of being fixt and I am aware that
it could be a lot of work and will take a long time for it to become
fixt.

Perhaps it will take more than a couple of releases of gnome before we
have some good degree of accessibility with evince.

Now with the given problem, I have a suggestion.
Why don't we try and create a rudimentary gtk based simple pdf reader.
It could be as simple as a text editor.  all that is urgently needed
is to read a pdf file and get its font information and other
attributes like bold italics and size of the font.
Just like some screen readers provide additional value added service,
we may as well do it for orca.
This pdf reader should be as simple as possible and we may not
immidiately go into implementing very advanced features.

if the community agrees to this at large, then I would take the initiative.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.