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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 10, 2012 3:58AM

Hi listers

PDF/UA is one exciting son of a gun, and is up there on the scale with
world peace and being able to buy a dark chocolate kit kat chocolate
bar in American grocery stores.
I wanted to start presenting on it for some Icelandic government
agencies, that create forms of all sorts, but there is a snag.
How would it be possible to generate PDF/UA documents, and when will
that be possible.
I will get a lot of questions regarding source software or CMS, I know
in Iceland they use Adobe Lifecycle extensively, but what about using
Office and exporting documents to PDF/UA?
Basically, is this something to tell people about now, or will it only
be available next year, or through a complex combination of software?
Of course there is the screen reader compatibility angle as well, but
we'll explore that bridge when we get there.
Cheers and be well.
-B