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Re: Untagged PDF doc with table structure

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Feb 19, 2015 9:33PM

No, not entirely.
The articles panel isn't very helpful in most documents, like long docs.
You have to watch your story threading, anchored objects and layers throughout to get the correct tag structure, but that's just InDesign 101 that you should be doing anyway.
If you've used InDesign's tools correctly, the tag order will follow exactly what you've laid out.
Using the structure pane is a royal pain, as in PITA. It drops XML tags into the document which then get royally botched as normal copy/paste editing actions are done during production. And what a slowdown on the computer!

IMHO, that's a pretty lousy way to use InDesign! For XML, yes, which is what it was designed to do. But that overhead isn't needed for accessible PDFs. I'd rather do other things with my time than wait from my 500-page government document to refresh the structure pane!

--Bevi Chagnon