> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:leonardr@(protected)]
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:00 AM
> To: Paulo Soares; Bruno Lowagie; Carsten Hammer
> Cc: itext-questions@(protected)
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?
>
> At 04:51 AM 9/23/2005, Paulo Soares wrote:
> >I have my doubts that a reliable automated system can be made,
>
>       For people using the layout engine in iText, it should be
> trivial to automate the tagging - since you know what is a paragraph,
> etc. It's only the explicit content features that will
> require manual tagging.
>

The problem is that there are several layout engines in iText, for
example, lists are rendered in completely different ways in ColumnText
and in Document(add).

>
> >even Acrobat has problems with PdfMaker in Word.
>
>       I've not seen a case of PDFMaker not getting tagging
> correct. Do you have an example of that?
>

I go from Word to PDF and then to RTF. Either Acrobat doesn't use the
tagging information when converting to RTF or the tagging information is
wrong or the conversion process is broken but the end result is that I
don't get with I started with. Some simple lists and colors are wrong,
for example.

>
> >I also think (I may be
> >mistaken here) that 99% of the people would be happy with
> something that
> >would simply give the right text ordering.
>
>       It's certainly a start and definitely better than
> nothing. Though it's not necessarily PDF/A-1A compliant.
>

As far as tagging is concearned, it is. I'm not forced to have a full
descriptive layout. I should but I don't have to.

Paulo

>
> >My idea is to give a manual
> >way to tag and a really simple automated way just to be able
> to retrieve
> >the text unambiguously and in the right order.
>       Sounds like a great first step!
>
>
> Leonard
>
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