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Re: Disappearing PDF content

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jul 28, 2014 3:26PM

Yes. Some people fix it by playing with the reading order. Personally, i go
to the content pane, find the text that disappeared. There is usually an
image/figure or artifact tag above or below it. swapping these usually
fixes it. More complex layouts may need similar tweaking.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Iaffaldano, Michelangelo <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Recently I have had to use Acrobat to make a PDF newsletter more
> accessible. The document had been created in Microsoft Publisher and its
> reading order was especially bad. One problem I encountered is that
> sometimes, when moving a tag to its appropriate place in the reading order
> pane - for example, placing a heading above the pertinent paragraph - the
> corresponding text would become invisible in the document viewer. Has
> anyone encountered this and is there a way to avoid it?
>
> Michelangelo
>
> > > >