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Re: Losing images when converting to PDF from Word?

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From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
Date: Nov 8, 2016 1:14PM

I saw the issue on Office 2013 just yesterday...

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Civil Rights Office
(512) 438-3431 (Office)

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Michael,

I thought that issue was resolved in Word 2013.

On 8 November 2016 at 14:09, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> We have not seen that but we have noticed that the images do not end
> up in the correct location in the reading order or in the tag tree
> when converting from docx files. This problem can be avoided by
> setting the image to display in-line and saving to the .doc format. I
> am not sure if it is related to the issue that you are seeing.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
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> Has anyone here seen a recurring problem with Acrobat DC just dropping
> images completely (GIFs, usually) when converting from Word Docs (or
> Docx) to PDF? We can't figure out the pattern. Sometimes they get
> dropped, and sometimes they don't. We've had to re-insert the images
> after the conversions, directly in Acrobat. It's annoying!
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