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Re: Losing images when converting to PDF from Word?

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From: Andrea Miralia
Date: Nov 8, 2016 6:12PM

We've had the issue for 2 years now, with Acrobat DC this time and Word 2010 (version "14.")

This is a bug that we've had in hundreds of documents, all due at the same time, so this year and last, we had to manually insert them back in. They were nowhere to be found in the content panel.






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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 3:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Losing images when converting to PDF from Word?

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)
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Andrea Miralia
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Losing images when converting to PDF from Word?
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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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