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Re: Untagged PDF doc with table structure

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Feb 18, 2015 4:25PM

Sorry, that's a different issue Ryan.
I'm talking about the jibberish tags that end up regardless of how a
designer sets up the document for tagging in InDesign. The core tag in the
exported PDF ends up being a jibberish version of the paragraph style's
name, not the designed tag.

RE: what you mentioned about InDesign's tags, that's sort of true. Let me
clarify InDesign's tagging method.
InDesign does indeed recognize all of the PDF tags; the problem is that it
and Acrobat don't export them as well as they should.

In InDesign, certain tags must be set in the export tag options:
Headings 1 through 6.
Artifacts (for text).
Well, that's all the control you have in InDesign! Everything else is set to
Auto, and Auto does recognize:
- Tables (and if you've set repeating headers, it will put in the TH
tag).
- Lists, both numbered and bulleted.
- Hyperlinks if you've used the hyperlink utility.
- TOCs if you've used InDesign's TOC utility.
- And pretty much the core of any InDesign document.

Except for grouped items, anchored text frames, un-hyperlinked footnotes,
un-hyperlinked indexes, and a whole lot more, the basics of an InDesign
document are tagged correctly in the PDF.

--Bevi Chagnon