RE: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-23 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 06:12 AM 9/23/2005, Paulo Soares wrote: 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). Ah, didn't realize that! I go from Word to PDF and then to RTF. Either Acrobat do

RE: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-23 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:00 AM > To: Paulo Soares; Bruno Lowagie; Carsten Hammer > Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

RE: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-23 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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

RE: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-23 Thread Paulo Soares
> Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A? > > At 04:22 PM 9/22/2005, Paulo Soares wrote: > >I'm already working on Tagged PDF support > > Excellent! > > Automated/tied into the layout

Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 04:22 PM 9/22/2005, Paulo Soares wrote: I'm already working on Tagged PDF support Excellent! Automated/tied into the layout system (paragraphs, chunks, etc.) or manual? (or both?) and from glancing the draft I don't see much problems in supporting PDF/A-1A. T

Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-22 Thread Paulo Soares
t;Carsten Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A? > At 02:30 PM 9/22/2005, Bruno Lowagie wrote: > >Paulo told me he was thinking about adding some Tagged PDF support, > >so that would a

Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 02:30 PM 9/22/2005, Bruno Lowagie wrote: Paulo told me he was thinking about adding some Tagged PDF support, so that would already be part of the PDF/A-A conformance requirement. Right - Tagged PDF support would be the big missing piece for PDF/A-1A support. The other include a ric

Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 11:14 AM 9/22/2005, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: At 12:34 PM 9/22/2005, Carsten Hammer wrote: are you going to support PDF/A (ISO-19005-1) like you support PDF/X (ISO-15930)? They could support PDF/A-B, but doing PDF/A-A isn't possible with the current iText functionality (though it co

Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Leonard Rosenthol wrote: At 12:34 PM 9/22/2005, Carsten Hammer wrote: are you going to support PDF/A (ISO-19005-1) like you support PDF/X (ISO-15930)? They could support PDF/A-B, but doing PDF/A-A isn't possible with the current iText functionality (though it could be added with a

Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:34 PM 9/22/2005, Carsten Hammer wrote: are you going to support PDF/A (ISO-19005-1) like you support PDF/X (ISO-15930)? They could support PDF/A-B, but doing PDF/A-A isn't possible with the current iText functionality (though it could be added with a bunch of work). PD

Re: [iText-questions] Plans to support PDF/A?

2005-09-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Carsten Hammer wrote: Hi Paulo, hi Bruno, are you going to support PDF/A (ISO-19005-1) like you support PDF/X (ISO-15930)? I have already implemented XMP metadata (which is part of the ISO). If you add PDF specific metadata, you can generate the corresponding XMP automatically. (See the 'cr