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RE: Tagging PDF Files / Adobe Acrobat 5.0

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From: Zwack, Melanie
Date: Jul 11, 2002 8:15AM



We are assuming that our users will have the ability to download the latest
version of Adobe Acrobat Reader since this can always be downloaded for free
from the Adobe Acrobat Web site. I would hope that this could be assumed.

It's interesting to hear that you've been having a lot of success with
PageMaker, InDesign (Word2k I don't think we use very much, but still good
to know.)

Thank you very much for your input about this!

How are you handling document in which the tagging is not so great? Are you
actually going through and repairing all the tags? At what point would you
determine that it would be better to convert to HTML? Just wondering about
your opinions and evaluations about this topic.

I've noticed too that when the document is tagged, the file size jumps by
approximately a third larger then the original non-tagged size. This could
be a problem too since some PDFs are already pretty large. Have you noticed
this?

Are you trying to make your PDF's 508 compliant for your web site? Are you
just making new conversions to PDF compliant, or actually trying to convert
all the older stuff too?

Thank you!



-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Spruill [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:55 AM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: RE: Tagging PDF Files / Adobe Acrobat 5.0


Couple of quick observations - I've had the greatest success creating
accessible PDF's by using PageMaker, InDesign, or Word2k... they yield
the best (properly) tagged documents (prior to conversion to PDF).
Another major consideration is which version of the Acrobat reader will
your audience be using? Only the latest version w/ Search and
Accessibility enhancements
(http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1439)
provides the best integration with Screen readers... and the ability to
properly traverse tables.

HK




Kevin Spruill
National Library of Medicine
OCCS
<EMAIL REMOVED>
(301) 402-9708
(301) 402-0367 (fax)
www.nlm.nih.gov


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