Re: Retaining headings when converting to PDF

[James Benstead <james.benstead-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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That's useful to know. I've spent some time trying to find the commands,
but all I can find on the Word side is a command-line tool called docx2pdf.
Is that the right thing to use? With LibreOffice, it seems to be a matter
of using a variation on soffice --convert-to?

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On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 01:57, Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr-bM6h3K5UM15l57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> You can create them on the command line using Word, on either Mac or
> Windows (using the MSOffice) - or Mac, Win or Linux using LibreOffice.
> Requires a second command, to go Word->PDF but still easy enough.
>
> Hakon - yes, thanks for the reminder.
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 1:36 PM James Benstead <james.benstead-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you all, that's very helpful.
>>
>> mb21: thank you for directing me to the github issue. I'd actually found
>> that independently, and it led me to try using ConTeXt. As you can see from
>> my comments at the bottom of the issue, while ConTeXt does add in some
>> headers, it doesn't allow for any hierarchical depth: i.e., when it
>> produces a PDF it flattens all headers to level 1.
>>
>> Word seems like the best bet for now, so I'll keep using that. I'll keep
>> an eye on this, though, as it would be great to be able to create tagged
>> PDFs from the command line, based on Markdown files.
>>
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>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 18:26, mb21 <mauro.bieg-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> There is also a corresponding pandoc github issue, where people also
>>> report success with ConTeXt:
>>> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5409#issuecomment-678782766
>>>
>>> On Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 5:51:11 PM UTC+2 Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, Prince will happily create tagged PDF from HTML.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.princexml.com
>>>>
>>>> (I'm on the board of YesLogic, the company behind Prince)
>>>>
>>>> Håkon Wium Lie haa...-EO96REbE7qRuMpJDpNschA@public.gmane.org www.wiumlie.no/en
>>>>
>>>> Leonard Rosenthol wrote::
>>>>
>>>> > That is because the current PDF creation processes from Pandoc
>>>> (either via
>>>> > TeX or HTML) cannot produce a proper Tagged PDF, that is required for
>>>> > screen reader integration.
>>>> >
>>>> > Your current best bets are to produce the PDF from Word/DocX using
>>>> either
>>>> > MSWord or LibreOffice, with the option to create Accessible/Tagged
>>>> PDF
>>>> > turned on or to produce ICML with Pandoc and use Adobe InDesign to
>>>> produce
>>>> > the Tagged PDF.
>>>> >
>>>> > I am currently producing Tagged PDFs from Markdown through both of
>>>> these
>>>> > paths and they each have their own pros and cons...
>>>> >
>>>> > Future looking, Adobe is actively working with (and funding!) work in
>>>> the
>>>> > TeX community produce Tagged PDFs - its a ways off, but it will
>>>> happen.
>>>> >
>>>> > And Google just announced that Chrome (and one would assume CEF) can
>>>> now
>>>> > produce Tagged PDFs (
>>>> https://9to5google.com/2020/07/29/chrome-tagged-pdf/),
>>>> > so perhaps we'll find an HTML-based path to get there soon as well.
>>>> >
>>>> > Leonard
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 10:06 AM Jim <james.b...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > > I'm producing a series of PDFs that are going to be read with a
>>>> > > screenreader. The screenreader lets the user skip through a
>>>> document by
>>>> > > jumping to the next header. I've created documents in both Word and
>>>> > > Markdown that include headers, but when I use pandoc to convert
>>>> these
>>>> > > documents to PDFs the headers are not included. The text that is
>>>> defined as
>>>> > > a header has a different visual style, but it isn't a header from
>>>> the point
>>>> > > of view of the screenreader.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I am able to produce a PDF with headers if I "Save As" from word
>>>> and then
>>>> > > create a PDF using Microsoft's own PDF creation tools. I'd really
>>>> like to
>>>> > > use pandoc for this, though, as it would offer me a ton more
>>>> flexibility.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Is there a particular command I need to use in order for pandoc to
>>>> retain
>>>> > > headers when creating a PDF?
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