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From: Mickey Williamson
Date: Jan 7, 2016 11:12AM

@Duff - I'd be interesting in knowing which tools those are. Please email
me directly if you don't want to post here.

And back to my original question...I have a Google Presentation document
that I need to make into an accessible PDF. The two methods of turning
that into a PDF (Google's "download as" and print to PDF) both give me a
PDF that will not allow tagging. When I try to add tagging, I get the
errors mentioned in my original post. Redoing the document using a proper
Word-InDesign-PDF workflow is not an option at this point. If I can't
somehow get a taggable PDF of the Google Presentation doc, it's going to
have to go out without tagging. :-( I am currently downloading a trial
version of Powerpoint in hopes of being able to "download as PPTX" and
convert to a taggable PDF from there but I don't have high hopes. Does
anyone have any other suggestions to try or knowledge about how to resolve
the error I'm getting?

Thanks,
Mickey

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Duff Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> > At this time, Adobe's products still reign supreme for PDFs, whether you
> need a press-quality one for sending to the print shop, or an accessible
> one for electronic distribution.
>
> With respect… not so. There are other products that do as good and in some
> cases a much better job of creating tagged PDF from MS Word files (for
> example) than Acrobat in its current incarnation.
>
> Moreover, some of these tools - typically the ones oriented specifically
> towards accessibility - include far, far better resources than Acrobat
> provides for ensuring accessibility of PDF documents.
>
> It's not my role to identify these vendors here.. but they exist, they
> aren't hiding and their products are available for sale today.
>
> Duff.
> > > > >



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