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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Jan 7, 2011 11:15AM

Jim, I have created tagged PDFs with the Save As PDF feature. It works just fine.

I hope my experience is not a fluke, because we just announced to our whole agency that it was the way to create PDFs from Office documents.

Interesting to hear about the forms issue, but perhaps just another reason to create forms in html or with LiveCycle Designer.

Cliff

Cliff Tyllick
Usability assessment coordinator
Agency Communications Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512-239-4516
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>>> On 1/7/2011 at 12:06 PM, in message <AANLkTikqyMcPiTnDz9DTVF7Jpw2+ <EMAIL REMOVED> >, Jim Allan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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
>