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Re: Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jan 7, 2016 9:32AM

> 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?

Google makes crappy PDF files. Sod but true.

Making good-quality PDF files is not a mystery. It's simply a question of the software developer's priorities.

Please complain to them about it. It's the only way to make these things change.

Duff.