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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Krishnakant:

The bug report is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309015.  You might 
try hooking up with Rafael who has also expressed interest in it.  It would be 
very very AWESOME to see this finally get done.

Will

Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> On 09/10/2008, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > Hi Krishnakant:
> >
> > > 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.
> > You might be able to accomplish this with pdftohtml which is part of the
> > poppler-utils package on Ubuntu.  That is, run pdftohtml and then bring the
> > results up in Firefox.
> Hi wili,  Again the problem is that font attributes can't be read by
> orca in firefox.  So apart from headings, list etc we don't get any
> extra info out from html.  So bringing the pdf file down to html will
> still not help.
>
> > If you want to write your own PDF viewer from scratch, the main thing it is
> > going to need is caret navigation and an accessible text implementation.
> > So, if
> > this is all that Evince needs to make it accessible, perhaps it might
> > require
> > less work overall to just add these things to Evince?
> Ok, that sounds sensible to mee as well.
> Can you provide more details?
> wili, can you please put me in touch with the associated hackers of evince?
> please connect them to me off the list if you know them.
> I am thinking of seriously making this work.
> so if we can start a serious discussion on this then we might get some
> thing working soon.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> > Will
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