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Re: tagging PDF's

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From: Ted
Date: Mar 22, 2012 12:09PM

Sorry but I have to disagree that the Order Panel doesn't matter - it
certainly does for people who need to view documents in Reflow view, for
example people with various low vision conditions, not to mention the
reading order for PDFs viewed on many mobile devices.

The key to fixing it in Acrobat is to do the Order Panel first and then the
tags panel (changing the Order Panel affects both views whereas changing
reading order in the tags tree affects only the tags output).

The key to fixing it in InDesign is to go through each page working from
bottom right to top left and sending each frame in turn to the back in the
stacking order. This works perfectly in InDesign CS5.5 but for previous
versions it doesn't work for images which will still have to be fixed in
Acrobat as above.


Ted Page
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