RE: Converting html to pdf with java

Hi George,

 

The question is not whether it is possible, but why would you bother.  The
majority of PDFs on the web are derived from electronic source documents, do
not utilise the content security features offered by the platform, and
creating accessible PDFs is time-consuming, incurs time and monetary costs,
and is beyond the skill level of most casual content creators, so I struggle
to find compelling reasons why there is a need to use PDF at all, especially
when there are tools and methods in existing non-proprietary technologies
such as (X)HTML, CSS, and JS etc. which offer comparative content securing
and (print) formatting functionality.   

 

Cheers,

Adam 

  

 

 

 

From: George Kerscher [mailto:kerscher@montana.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:24 AM
To: Tanguy.Loheac@sanofi.com; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: RE: Converting html to pdf with java

 

Hello,

 

I am normally quiet on this list, however, I thought it best to comment on
this topic.

 

I believe it is not a good idea to convert from HTML or XHTML to PDF, even
if it might be classified as accessible PDF.  I cannot think of a situation
where I would prefer a PDF over HTML; I am blind using a screen reader.

 

Best

George

 

From: Tanguy.Loheac@sanofi.com [mailto:Tanguy.Loheac@sanofi.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:01 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: TR: Converting html to pdf with java

 

Hello,

I don't know if this is the good place for such a question. But has anyone
had the chance to expirement a java library that would convert accessible
(x)html page to an accessible pdf document?

For instance, I've found this article :
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html

Unfortunately the input file taken as example is too poor in tags to have a
good feeling of the accessibility of the output.

Thanks in advance for your valuable advice.

Regards

Tanguy