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

[Erik Heil <eheil sdf lonestar org>]

Hello,
Depends on how much of the code needs to be re-factored.  its not as if the
developers didn't cosnider it important--if you look at the initial bug
reporter, it was indeed filed by an Evince developer.  Unfortunately, I'm
not familiar with the At-Spi libraries, or Gail in general, but i'd be
willing to help in any way possible.  Any of you know where I can get
decent documentation for this?  Also, speaking of accessibility, any of
you know what's up with access to Acrobat Reader?  Because I remember in I
think version 7.X, we did have access to PDF;s via Acrobat.  In Version
8.1, seems that their has been a major regression.  Don't know if I can
blame Orca for this, it may very well be on the Adobe side of things.
Since I'm not aware of a public Acrobat bugtracker, my knowledge here is
limited.

--Erik

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Krishnakant Mane wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:50:27 +0530
> From: Krishnakant Mane <hackingkk gmail com>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] a suggestion to solve pdf reading with orca.
>
> 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.
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