Re: [iText-questions] Creating Accessible Tables in 5.3.5 (Tagged, Marked Content)

2013-02-18 Thread Duff Johnson
> Matterhorn is certainly one possible way to potentially address that > issue. Whether it is the right solution or the one that the industry will > adopt is still quite up in the air. Of course. No-one's pretending otherwise. At this time, I'm not aware of any other candidates... Duff. --

Re: [iText-questions] Creating Accessible Tables in 5.3.5 (Tagged, Marked Content)

2013-02-18 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 2/18/13 4:17 PM, "Duff Johnson" wrote: >>My question was how useful putting stuff into the PDF itself (in the form >> of Matterhorn) mattersÅ  > >Well, you might guess that I think it's VERY important! ;-) > >The reason is simple. As you pointed out, validation involves >humans, and that's expen

Re: [iText-questions] Creating Accessible Tables in 5.3.5 (Tagged, Marked Content)

2013-02-18 Thread Duff Johnson
> Just remember that it is IMPOSSIBLE to create a PDF/UA compliant document > (for the normal cases of document) w/o human intervention. This is, > unfortunately, by design in PDF/UA - and accessibility in general (WCAG > has the same issue). That's such a strange way to put it! "Accessibility ha

[iText-questions] Document & Byte[] / MemoryStream

2013-02-18 Thread XFAIR GmbH (David Gray)
Hi, I was have difficulties earlier using a MemoryStream with a PdfReader object. I seem to have got it working now by using a Byte[], even though PdfReader has an overload of (stream isp). Question is does this class not work with a MemoeyStream and basically am I doing this correctly using t

Re: [iText-questions] Creating Accessible Tables in 5.3.5 (Tagged, Marked Content)

2013-02-18 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 2/17/13 4:20 PM, "1T3XT BVBA" wrote: >I really get frustrated when people use iText the wrong way. I know I >shouldn't, but I can't help it. > Completely understoodÅ ask me how frustrated I get at PDF creation software that generates broken PDFs (even in 2013!!!). >With this in mind: >Once we

[iText-questions] FW: Creating Accessible Tables in 5.3.5 (Tagged, Marked Content)

2013-02-18 Thread John Renfrew
Bruno The problem with StackOverflow can be summed up by a friend of mine from years ago "The pooling of ignorance is not knowledge" Maybe what is needed is a highly graphical Dummies guide to iText, which starts with 'This is what iText can NOT do', then moves to 'this is what it CAN do'. Not