He didn't necessary say PDF/A-1a (which, as you note, requires tagging). He could just as easily make PDF/A-1b.
-----Original Message----- From: 1T3XT info [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:13 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF to PDF-X/PDF-A Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > It's possible, but it's a LOT of work. There is nothing built into > iText to do this I had a report in plain PDF with the following text: PRESENT: F. Lloyd Wright, R. Piano, A. Rossi, R. Koolhaas, B. Van Reeth, S. Beel, B. Lowagie I converted this PDF to PDF-1a with Acrobat. Acrobat assumed that "PRESENT" and "F. Lloyd Wright, R. Piano, A. Rossi," were P(aragraphs). The other two lines were tagged as a list with labels "R." and "B." ;-) I don't complain about this: all in all, I was very pleased with the result. I'm just given this example to show the OP that it's extremely difficult to convert a PDF without any structure to a PDF with structure without human intervention. That's also what common sense tells us. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
