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Re: Alt text for images in Word 2010 always get lost when "save as PDF" is selected

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 27, 2012 1:10PM

Hey guys

Thanks for the help. I was idiotic enough to put the text in the title
attribute of the pictures (that, despite heavily criticizing any use
of the title attribute in HTML, at least from screen reader user
perspective), I just thought that title was closer to "alt text" than
description, because Word uses different names for all thoes fields.
But, again, thanks to everyone, this works fine now and returns, in
fact, no errors using PAC, despite a lot of fairly complex structures.
-B

On 11/26/12, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Yes, Adobe Acrobat Pro needs to be installed on the workstation. Reader
> does
> not create PDFs so it doesn't include the Acrobat plug-ins (or tools) for
> MS Office.
>
> If MS Office (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and other office
> applications) is already installed, Acrobat will install its plug-in (with
> its conversion settings and tools) in those applications. It adds a new
> tab/ribbon bar named "Acrobat" as well as a PDF printer driver (virtual
> printer, that is).
>
> If MS Office is installed after Acrobat, then there won't be an Acrobat
> tab,
> plug-in, tools, or controls for conversion settings, so you can't make an
> accessible PDF from Word.
>
> The basic ground rules I give my clients:
> 1) Make sure Acrobat is installed last, after all other software, so that
> it
> can drop its plug-in into MS Office.
> 2) If your copy of MS Office is upgraded, you might lose the Acrobat
> plug-in
> entirely or Acrobat will not perform correctly when exporting PDFs from MS
> Office (behavior like what Birkir described). If that's the case, uninstall
> Acrobat, reboot the computer, and reinstall Acrobat so that it can add the
> Acrobat plug-in again and fix the installation of Acrobat.
>
> -Bevi Chagnon
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