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From: Jim Allan
Date: Jan 7, 2011 11:09AM

I have office 2010 and acrobat x, on simple documents (headings,
lists) the pdf is created just fine, when you get to forms creating a
pdf crashes word 2010. have been researching it online, seems to be a
known issue, but no solution yet.
I read yesterday, while searching for a solution to the crashing, that
saving as pdf does not tag the document and I believe it looses
structure. can't seem to find the reference. does any one else know
about this?
Jim

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Karlen Communications
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Heather Parker
> Sent: January-06-11 6:59 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> 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
>