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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Oct 31, 2015 8:50AM

> We can specify the language for the entire PDF in the File/Properties dialogue.

Yes.

> But I don't believe there's a way in Acrobat Pro to specify that a particular paragraph (or any amount of selected text) uses a particular language.

Simply set the "Lang" attribute on the structure element of your choosing…

> Or have I missed a new feature in the latest version of Acrobat?
> Let us know if that's possible!

It's been there since 2001. :-)

In Acrobat, language is set in the Object Properties dialog for your selected tag.

Duff.