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Brandon Ballentine

23 Sep, 2015 01:30 PM

Hi,

I use Marked (which is awesome, BTW) mostly to create PDF versions of my Markdown documents. I work in an academic setting, and our materials need to be ADA compliant. I noticed that the exported PDFs do not include the alt text descriptions I add in my original Markdown files. Is there a way to add that info to the template?
Thanks,
Brandon

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 23 Sep, 2015 02:25 PM

   

   Hi Brandon,

   This is a good question. When Marked creates a paginated PDF, it uses
   the WebKit print system. As far as I can see, the attribute tags on
   links are not converted to anything useful in the output PDF. I'd be
   happy to work on a conversion system if there were a markup solution
   that would solve this, but I can't find evidence of any way to actually
   do it. I can use CSS to actually include the text in the output, but not
   as the invisible-but-accessible tags you'd get when using Acrobat, etc.

   If you know of any references for this, I'd welcome the info. I'm
   considering a more ground-up PDF engine in the future (after I finish
   the updated RTF export), that would allow me to build the PDF with
   templates. Currently, though, it's based on the same system you'd have
   if you printed from Safari.

   -Brett

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2. 2 Posted by Brandon Ballent... on 24 Sep, 2015 11:03 AM

   

   Hi Brett,

   Thanks for the quick response. I will keep an eye out for a markup system to handle the attributes. If I find anything, I will let you know!

   Thanks,
   Brandon

   Sent from my iPhone

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