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From: L Snider
Date: Jan 28, 2015 12:42PM

Oh and that solves the problem for my reading order too! Basically if I
number pages in the Page Tab, and then make the footer into a background
image (that is where the page numbers and images are stored)-that solves
both issues!

Thanks again,

Lisa

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:39 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> That sounds perfect, thanks so much. So I gather that Pro stores that
> information differently and doesn't tag it as it would page numbers from
> Word? That is very cool!
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Jonathan Avila <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> > Do you mark page numbers as artifacts (page)?
>>
>> The proper place to expose page, section, or other page numbers
>> information that doesn't match the PDF page numbers for assistive
>> technology is under the Page Tab. Right click or open the context menu and
>> choose Number Pages. That way you can keep page numbers artifacts. There
>> still may be some header and footer information that needs to be exposed by
>> tagging -- but this method should solve the page number issue.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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