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Re: Server side (accessible) PDF creation

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Nov 2, 2013 2:47PM

Andrew - I tend to push people away from LiveCycle as much as possible.
While I have not upgraded to Acrobat XI, *none* of the tools or my standard
procedures for testing can be used. As somebody who often has to officially
give a green light to something, a PDF made in LiveCycle roughly quadruples
my turn-around time.

Alastair - you may want to check out iText. I heard that it can create
tagged PDFs. The author seems fairly active on StackOverflow.

--
Ryan E. Benson


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> I'm saying that the LiveCycle family of products creates tagged PDF forms
> that can support accessibility, both forms and documents without
> interactive controls. For forms, LiveCycle creates XFA and Acroforms, as
> well as creating HTML forms from the same design source file.
>
> AWK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto:
> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Olaf Drümmer
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:52 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Server side (accessible) PDF creation
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> are you intending to say LiveCycle is good at creating accessible PDF
> forms, or really accessible PDF documents in general?
>
> And regarding forms: would that be (accessible) LiveCycle forms (also
> known as XFA forms), or also so called (accessible) AcroForms?
>
> Olaf
>
>
> Am 30 Oct 2013 um 15:25 schrieb Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
>
> > Alastair,
> > Just to chime in on this, if you are looking for the Adobe server-based
> tool, you're looking for Adobe LiveCycle.
> > AWK
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Alastair
> > Campbell
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:24 AM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Server side (accessible) PDF creation
> >
> > Hi Cameron and Schalk,
> >
> > Thanks for those. I couldn't find any references to tagging in either of
> them though?
> >
> > I also couldn't find a PDF to test out on PDFbox, and the first I found
> on Phoenix wasn't tagged (not necessarily a sign it cannot tag, but not a
> good start).
> >
> > I'm not a Java programmer so not in a position to download then and
> create test cases, but I'll pass them on as a possibility for to
> investigate.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Alastair
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