[DVIPDFMx] generating PDF/A files / ``tagged'' pdf

William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com
Wed Sep 10 23:12:46 KST 2008


Posted this to the LyX list, but was wondering if there were any  
interest in working up support for it directly in dvipdfmx:

Since pdflatex can't insert .pdf tags (or is there a package for  
this?), you need to certify against pdf/A-1b:

- Open the file in Adobe Acrobat
- Save File As and choose as Format: PDF/A
- choose pdf/a-1b in the pop-up
- quit Acrobat
- re-open the file
- preflight (successfully) as PDF/A-1b

There's also the accessibility support package:

http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/accsupp

So probably tagging would require support at the macro level (possibly  
only there?).

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications





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