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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jul 29, 2013 3:38PM

Although the Touch-Up-Reading-Order tool (TURO) and its Table Editor have
been improved, Table Editor is still the most difficult tool to use in the
Acrobat toolbox. (I'm trying to be diplomatic here!)

After countless years of using it, I have all but given up! Here are my
solutions:

1) Go back to the original source document and fix the table there and
re-export it to PDF. Recent versions of Word + Acrobat XI plug-in, as well
as Adobe InDesign CS6 and CC, tag most tables correctly.

2) Use CommonLook to correct the table.

Would love to hear what solutions others use.

-Bevi Chagnon
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