Re: roadmap

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 5/15/2018 8:15 AM, Christoph Reller wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:53 AM, <ntg-context-request@ntg.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 23:26:28 +0200
>> From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
>> To: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>, mailing list for ConTeXt
>>          users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
>> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] roadmap
>> Message-ID: <c504ea08-a021-4444-4eba-c2894d72da52@xs4all.nl>
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>> On 5/14/2018 9:36 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>> Hi Hans, thank you so much!
> 
> Keep up the good work!
> 
>>> * PDF/* (X, A, UA - probably only reasonable with external tools, but it seems like there’s not a lot that’s usable)
>>
>> we support various formats (to some extend the backend even adapts to
>> it) ... tagged pdf ... already there for quite a while but i never had
>> any demand for it so i never really check the current state (also
>> because imo it's a it weird feature ... only there because publishers
>> don't want to distribute sources that are suitable for rendering
>> variations ... so we're stuck with some pseudo structure related to
>> visuals)
>>
>> (i might upgrade tagging and exports as they closely relate but it's not
>> easy to get motivated for something that one has no real use for so at
>> most it will cold winter evening stuff)
> 
> To us, tagged PDF is important. Specifically, for PDF/A with
> compliance level a, tagging is mandatory. ConTeXt is the only (!)
> TeX-based PDF creation suite that can produce correct and reliable
> tagging.
> 
> Our company is producing (and weekly updating) 67 manuals and
> technical documents from more than 900 ConTeXt source files for our
> software products. The output PDFs are converted to PDF/A-2a, which is
> only possible due to ConTeXt's tagging.
> 
>  From what we hear of our customers, PDF/A level a and PDF/UA are
> becoming increasingly important, be it because of archiving issues or
> because of legislation requirements. So please, maintain this
> invaluable feature!
Ah, it's good to hear that it's working ok. (Of course it is/will be 
maintained ... it's just that because I don't need it myself it's up to 
folks like you to check if it's ok.)

Hans

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