Thanks for this last piece of info. I have been searching for an
accessible PDF reader that can run in Ubuntu for years! I hope the
work on evince makes progress soon!
On 8/7/2012 2:42 PM, Juan Jose Marin Martinez wrote:
Speedy,
Okular and Evince use the same PDF rendering engine, Poppler. In
fact, Okular and Evince maintainers are the main contributors of
Poppler.
GNU PDF was removed from the FSF High Priority Projects because
the maturity of Poppler. Check the link below.
As Dani Garcia told us, some work is in on the road to provide
accessible information to Evince. He patched Poppler to provide
the text attributes to glib, used by Evince, and he's now working
in Evince to provide the PDF information to orca.
Cheers,
-- Juanjo Marin
Link:
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-pdf-project-leaves-high-priority-projects-list-mission-complete
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:42:46 -0400, Speedy wrote:
GNU has been working on PDF libraries
which seem to implement all of the
Tag functionality of the standard. GNU had this listed as one of
their
top priorities last year! It was designed with accessibility in
mind. The
plan was to build a totally accessible PDF viewer, originally
called
juggler, now seems to go by the name gnupdf (gnupdf.org). I
believe most
of the work on the libraries are complete. Unfortunately, no
effort has
gone into the front end application! GNU has also apparently
lowered the
priority or stopped the idea entirely of developing their own
open PDF
reader!
Perhaps they think the need has been filled by other projects?
There is
an application, called Okular, which is rated well and available
on
Linux, Windows and Mac. Has anybody used this application and is
it
accessible?
Here is a list of free readers posted by GNU:
PDFreaders.org - Get a Free Software PDF reader!
http://www.pdfreaders.org/ [8]
DON MARANG
Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org [9]
On 8/2/2012 9:45 PM, Jason White wrote:
Thomas Ward wrote:
It sounds to me like what we need here
is for someone to write a
talking pdf viewer/reader. I really don't think creating
such an
application would be all that difficult. After all, as has
been
discussed there is an open pdf document standard used by a
number of
open source applications. All we really need to do is create
an
accessible graphical document reader using something like
the GTK+ 3
toolkit, and then maybe wrap speech-dispatcher for speech
output.
The challenge would be to implement tagged PDF, which is the
part of
the
specification of most relevance to accessibility. As far as I
know,
there are
no free software implementations of this, except for
LibreOffice, which
can
write it but can't read it. I think ConTeXt can also write it.
The solution would be to take the best existing PDF library
and add
support
for tagged PDF.
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