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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jun 11, 2013 8:43AM

The only other tool I am aware of to edit the tags in a tagged PDF is "CommonLook PDF" from NetCentric (cf. http://www.commonlook.com/CommonLook-PDF ). I have used it only briefly (so I can't comment how useful it is for real work), but it does not seem to suffer from the Acrobat Pro problems mention (which are a well known limitation of Acrobat Pro).

Olaf

On 11 Jun 2013, at 16:35, TX Knight wrote:

> 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.
>
> ------- Forwarded message -------
> 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?
>>
>> ~Sam
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