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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Feb 18, 2015 4:13PM

Hi Ryan,

On 18 Feb 2015, at 23:50, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> InDesign only recognizes a handful of standard PDF tags. I can't find the
> list right now, but I am pretty sure it is in the help. InDesign knows
> <Table>, <Tr> and <Td>, for example, but not <TH> or something like that.

it does handle <TH> quite well (at least for column headers).

> PDF tags are case sensitive, so if you create an h1 Tag for your inDesign
> document, it gets mapped to the <P> tag in the PDF. However, creating the
> H1 tag in inDesign, it correctly gets mapped to H1 in the PDF.

nope. What you actually do is do assign a certain tag to your style sheet which then gets used during export (and via role mapping in the resulting PDF. The list offered here consists of only H1 through H6 and P (yep, that's it, except for <H> which you do not want to use, and 'Artifact' which is not a tag, but can be handy at times). Most other stuff is just handled properly by Indesign, at least for stuff like lists and tables (with some limitations - e.g. no row headers, no complex table structures) and footnotes and figures and links and (CS 6 or newer) form fields.

Some of the glaring omissions are lack of support for table of contents (TOC / TOCI), something as easy as Caption, or BlockQuote, Quote, Formula (accompanied by lack of support for something like MathML) and a few others.

So the statement
> InDesign only recognizes a handful of standard PDF tags.

has to be turned into its opposite:
> InDesign supports a a lot of standard PDF tags.

with the following addition:
> With some very unfortunate [seemingly easy to implement/support] omissions, like support for Caption, or BlockQuote, Quote, Formula and a few others.


Olaf