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Re: PDFMaker vs. Word Add-in for pdf conversion

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From: Howard Kramer
Date: Apr 29, 2015 1:32PM

Thanks Sylvia - that's the kind of info I was looking for.

-Howard

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Sylvia Richardson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I would recommend the Adobe add-in very strongly, especially for
> PowerPoint presentations or Word docs with headers/footers. It does a much
> better job of marking content as artifacts where appropriate. The automatic
> bookmarking is also better.
>
> -Sylvia
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Howard Kramer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:43 PM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] PDFMaker vs. Word Add-in for pdf conversion
>
> I've noticed there are two contradictory views regarding PDFMaker vs. the
> Word/Office Add-in for Office 2010 and 2013. I've heard from some folks
> that the Word Add-in works fine and just as well as the PDFMaker Add-in. On
> the WebAIM site (http://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/converting), they
> state, regarding the Word Add-in that:
>
> The tagging process may not be quite as good as with the Adobe add-in, but
> most content, such as heading levels, lists, and alternative text for
> images is exported.
>
> Is the above the general consensus or is this still up for debate. I'd
> like to know how strongly to recommend PDFMaker over the native Word Add-in.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Howard
>
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