Tagged PDF

mikeday
15 Dec 2017

The Prince latest builds now support Tagged PDF via the PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-3a profiles. This has been a commonly requested feature as they are required by many accessibility standards. Please try it out!

Edited 15 Dec 2017 by mikeday

thomasdumm
15 Dec 2017

FYI: On the page with the profiles available in prince the two that now support tagged PDF are not listet:
http://www.princexml.com/doc/pdf-profiles/#pdf-profiles

csant
15 Dec 2017

Hi thomasdumm, the documentation refers to the latest released version, not to the latest snapshot builds. It will be updated once a Prince build with the feature is released.

thomasdumm
15 Dec 2017

thank you. I should have checked the difference between PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b first...

wangp
17 Dec 2017

You can also pass --tagged-pdf to produce a tagged PDF without the other requirements of PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-3a.

John
16 Jan 2018

Hey,

great news! But is there a reason the latest version is not available for Debian 9?

greetings,
john

mikeday
16 Jan 2018

An oversight on our part, we will have an updated package ready this week.

John
16 Jan 2018

Epic! Thanks.

mikeday
17 Jan 2018

The Debian 9 packages are available now!

John
23 Jan 2018

Thanks a lot! We are testing it now.

Is there any chance the current release will be provided for Debian 9 as well? Afaik there are some hard deps regarding libssl...

greetings,
John

Edited 23 Jan 2018 by John

John
14 Feb 2018

I meant "Debian 8" in my previous post. Anyway we moved on to Debian 9, so no worries. Thanks again for your quick answers.

foo
27 Feb 2018

Hi,
I am using java, I see setJavaScrip method, but I don't see setProfile method. How can I enable tagged PDF with java method? I also tried prince.setOptions("--pdf-profile=\"PDF/A-1b\""); but it did not work.

Any suggesstion?

mikeday
28 Feb 2018

You can omit the quotes around the value: setOptions("--pdf-profile=PDF/A-1b");

We will update the Java wrapper to add a new method for this.

wilby
12 Jul 2018

@mikeday - where can we get the new Java wrapper?

wilby
24 Sep 2018

@mikeday - where can we get the new Java wrapper?

mikeday
25 Sep 2018

Sorry for the delay, it will be ready shortly.

mikeday
29 Sep 2018

Please find the updated Java wrapper here: prince-java-20180929.zip

It has these new methods:

setPDFProfile
setPDFOutputIntent
setFallbackCMYKProfile
setPDFXMP

brucel
8 Aug 2019

Hello all. We've written an article on "Making accessible tagged PDFs with Prince" - it's at https://medium.com/@bruce_39084/making-accessible-tagged-pdfs-with-prince-ad7fd7a48711. It's based on the latest build (https://www.princexml.com/latest/) as that gives you more flexibility to customise the HTML to PDF tag mappings, but the process will work on Prince 12.5 also, with fewer customisation options.

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