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Re: Accessible "save as PDF" plug ins for Word on OSX

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jan 7, 2011 5:15AM

I would ask for Office 2010 as Word, PowerPoint and excel have an
accessibility checker. There is also a Navigation Pane where you can review
headings, the ability to import and export styles and a styles
manager/organizer that is useful. Office 2007 has all of these except the
accessibility checker. Office 2010 has the save as PDF add-in built in
whereas Office 2007 needs a download and install for the add-in.

One other note of importance is that with Office 2010 you would need Acrobat
X to use the integrated Adobe add-in to convert documents directly from
Office. I know Acrobat X does NOT support a 64-bit install of Office 2010 So
you would need to ensure that the 32-bit version of Office was installed. My
version of Office 2010 is 64-bit only so I do not have access to the Adobe
add-in. I have to either use the Microsoft save as PDF tools or open the
document in an Office 2007 version/on another computer to use the
integrated Adobe add-in. This means I still have to have two computers to
create PDF: one with Office 2010 and Acrobat 9/which has the standard menus,
and one with Office 2007 32-bit and Acrobat X/which has an entirely new UI
that is minimally accessible using the keyboard/has most of the menus
removed.

Cheers, Karen