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Re: Losing images when converting to PDF from Word?

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Nov 11, 2016 12:00PM

Yep. Here we are in 2016 and we still can't make the format work. I don't
want new features. I don't want cloud working I want bugs fixed.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:13 PM Andrea Miralia < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

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> We've had the issue for 2 years now, with Acrobat DC this time and Word
> 2010 (version "14.")
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> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 3:03 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> 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:
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> > 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-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Andrea Miralia
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 12:19 PM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > Subject: [WebAIM] Losing images when converting to PDF from Word?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > > > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > >
> > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > >
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