Create PDF/UA with DynaPDF Starter

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Now you got our MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin (e.g. with OmegaBundle) and you like to make a PDF with PDF/UA standard. That means your PDF includes tags for accessibility. So instead of just having text pieces on the page, they each haves tags to classify whether they are heading, paragraph, quote, label or similar thing.

You build your PDF and do a few extra steps for the PDF:

  • You need to define the viewer preferences to show the display title.
  • The language needs to be set, e.g. to en-EN.
  • The structure tree needs to be created, so we have a root.
  • The PDF version is set use to kpvPDFUA1.
  • When adding content, you call OpenTag/CloseTag to annotate your content.

For debugging, it can be helpful to set the compression level to zero for a PDF and thus be able to just drop the PDF on a text editor and see what is inside.

Here is a little sample code for you:

Dim pdf As New DynaPDFMBS
Dim f As FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Desktop.Child("Create PDF.pdf")
Call pdf.CreateNewPDF f

// We want to use top-down coordinates
Call pdf.SetPageCoords pdf.kpcTopDown

// Required! The document title must be displayed
Call pdf.SetViewerPreferences(pdf.kvpDisplayDocTitle, pdf.kavNone)

// Required! The language must be set too
Call pdf.SetLanguage "en-EN"

// PDF/UA files are Tagged PDF files. So, a structure tree is required.
Call pdf.CreateStructureTree

// set version to PDF/UA-1
Call pdf.SetPDFVersion(pdf.kpvPDFUA1)

If pdf.Append Then
	// Set to write text block
	Call pdf.SetTextRect(50, 50, pdf.GetPageWidth - 2.0 * 50.0, pdf.GetPageHeight - 2.0 * 50.0)
	
	// set a font
	Call pdf.SetFont("Arial", pdf.kfsRegular)
	
	// The root node btDocument was already created by CreateStructureTree().
	// create a paragraph tag
	Call pdf.OpenTag(pdf.kbtP, "", "", "")
	// put in content
	Call pdf.WriteFText(pdf.ktaLeft, "Hello World"+EndOfLine+"Second line")
	// and close the tag
	Call pdf.CloseTag
	
	Call pdf.EndPage
end if

#If DebugBuild Then
	// for debugging, don't compress this pdf
	Call pdf.SetCompressionLevel(0)
#EndIf

Call pdf.CloseFile

f.Launch
quit

Please try and let us know if you have questions.