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From: TX Knight
Date: Jun 11, 2013 8:35AM

Thanks for everyone's fast reply.

To answer some of your questions, I currently use Adobe Acrobat Pro X to
touch up the tags created by other applications. For example, I may have
cause to touch up a PDF created by Microsoft Word.

The particular instance that convinced me to submit my question was a PDF
created by Microsoft Visio 2010. When looking at the tags of the PDF, it
became obvious that the reading order was completely messed up. I attempted
to fix the reading order manually and ran into two recurring issues.


1. I'd be in the process of changing the order, and then suddenly tags I
already moved, would rearrange themselves.
2. Also when I moved a tag, the text of the corresponding figure would
go blank. The undo feature never seems to fix this problem, so if I don't
save very frequently, I risk losing much of the progress I made.


If this was a one-time thing, I wouldn't have bothered submitting my
question. But I've noticed these same problems occurring in unrelated
documents from different authors.

It just recently occurred to me that Visio could be the problem. However in
at least one instance where these issues occurred, I don't believe the
author used Visio.

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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Mon, Jun 10 2013 12:04PM
Subject: Re: A better PDF editor for accessibility?
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Are you talking about how the tags are created from another program? If
that¹s the case, you might be having a problem with the Authoring Software.

What problem are you having with Acrobat Pro?

Jonathan
>From: TX Knight
>Date: Mon, Jun 10 2013 9:48AM
>Subject: A better PDF editor for accessibility?
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>Hi all,
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>Does anyone know of A PDF editor that is better at handling tags than
> Adobe's PDF editor?
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>~Sam