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From: Gijs Veyfeyken
Date: Jan 23, 2013 4:03AM

Thank you Duff. You've pointed me in the right direction.

InDesign automatically assigns a language to a paragraph style.
Since my version of InDesign is English, it's set to English UK.

Screenshot dialog Paragraph Style Options > tab Advanced Character Formats
http://images.anysurfer.be/2013-01-23_09-10-07.png

If I open a new document and set the language of the default "basic paragraph" to Dutch,
all other paragraph styles created from that point on, will adopt this setting because they are based on the "basic paragraph".

The items in the content pane of Acrobat now have the correct language property.
Screenshot: http://images.anysurfer.be/Screen_Shot_2013-01-23_at_11.44.20.png

In conclusion:
According to Adobe, setting the language of the PDF on the document level in Acrobat, should do the trick.
This is false. The language properties on content level overrides the language on document level.
As always, making sure the source document is correct (in this case the language of Paragraph Styles in InDesign) avoids problems later on.

Kind regards,

Gijs

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