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From: Cathy Mar
Date: Mar 25, 2004 12:44PM


Thanks Jules for the reference. This will help us review the process in
Word documents. We also have clients using WordPerfect 8.0 and up
creating PDF's. Is there a better way to create this in 6.0 to make
accessible documents in WordPerfect? Anyone...

Much appreciated.
Cath

>>> <EMAIL REMOVED> 3/25/2004 10:52:48 AM >>>
At http://jrickards.ca/downloads/accessible_pdfs.zip, I have created a
tutorial (in Word within the zip file) on my methods, tips, tricks and
techniques on how I create an Accessible PDF. We use Acrobat 5 at work
so
where there may be differences between Acrobat 5 & 6: if so, my
document
does not account for them.

Acrobat 6, in addition to other features, includes new image
compression
routines that were not available to Acrobat/Acrobat Reader 5. This last
step
probably is asking you if you wish to accomodate Acrobat Reader 5 users
by
using compression routines that may be read by Acrobat/Acrobat Reader
5. I
don't think it is an accessibility issue per se.

HTH,

Jules

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Julian Rickards
Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publications Services Section
Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
Phone: (705) 670-5608
Fax: (705) 670-5690


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cathy Mar [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:36 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: PDF for accessability
>
>
> We have upgraded our software to Acrobat 6.0. Does anyone
> have a step
> by step process to create an accessible PDF tagged doc and
> saving it for
> other versions of Acrobat readers? We've run into problems of using
> paper capture then running accessability checker. Once we've
viewed
> the tagged document and fixed the images tags, we will run it
through
> the accessibility checker again. It will say that there is nothing
> wrong with the document. The last step is to "reduce file size"
for
> version 5.0 or later. Are we missing something?
>
> Also, having problems with netscape 4.79 using Acrobat plug
> in. Works
> on windows 2000/Netscape 4.79/Acrobat 5.0. Works on some machines
and
> others the page is blank...We also test to version 4.0 readers.
>
> Any information will greatly be appreciated.
>
> Cath
>
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