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Re: Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation

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From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Jan 7, 2016 9:29AM

I don't know about the accessibility of doing it this way, but have you
tried "printing" the document to PDF using something like Foxit Reader or
Adobe Reader's printer option?

As an aside, are there better PDF printing options? I haven't looked at
this yet, but I definitely need to implement a better PDF printer program
and PDF converter program (preferably free/low-cost) for our office...

Kelly

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Mickey Williamson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Has anyone had success in creating accessible PDFs out of a Google Doc or
> Google Presentation? I download the document as a PDF and it opens fine.
> But when I attempt to add tags, I get "Bad PDF; error in processing fonts.
> <cannot find CMap resource file>" or "Bad PDF; error in processing fonts.
> <bad Type0 font>" depending on whether it comes from Docs or Presentation.
> My test document I'm using for this has nothing but one word in the Arial
> font. A google search has yielded nothing. :-(
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Mickey
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