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Re: Word to PDF conversation has tags for images appearing at the top of the PDF tag tree

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From: Petri, Kenneth
Date: Jun 25, 2014 9:22AM

There is no work-around. However, the problem does not exist in Word 2013, which also does a better job with text boxes and preserves the language of text runs when outputting to PDF (that is, if I set a language on a piece of text in Word 2013 and you use Acrobat to export to PDF, the text language change is preserved).

So, you can either upgrade to Word 2013 or you can use a third-party tool such as CommonLook Office Pro (a Word plug-in), which will also save you lots of time if you have to deal with presentation-only images (they are artifacted by CommonLook) or tables (very nice table editing tools -- no more fussing with the lame Touch-up Reading Order tool).

Best,
ken