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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



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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible "save as pdf" plug ins for Word on OSX

I have 2003 & Acrobat Pro 8 on my PC, but the laptops have 2007. Some of
our department computers have 2003 and others have 2007. Some of the
computers in other departments have 2010.

I could ask for 2007 if it would help me. They would be happy to upgrade
me.

"After creating the PDF from Word 2003, you have to set the language
specification (under File, Properties, Advanced)..."

So I just can't turn it on and leave it on?

I think most of the errors where heading problems. I'll run one of the
proposals through and see what the errors are. The proposals were created
with CutePDF by the librarian.

Thanks again,

Heather
Alliant Int'l Univ