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From: L Snider
Date: Feb 6, 2018 11:32AM

Hi Bevi,

I also love InDesign now (2018), but one major issue I found...Not everyone
has had this happen, but Adobe has apparently officially made it a bug, as
I was one of a few who experienced this issue. I use the newest version of
InDesign and Acrobat, and when we convert from InDesign using Export with
tags enabled (Print or Interactive), all the headings and paragraphs turn
into spans. This only shows in the TURO in Acrobat, and yet the tags panel
is normal. I told them in October and have not seen any change yet, but am
hoping it happens soon. It is a total pain, if you like the TURO and want
to use it to fix tags. I am going to follow up with them, because I find
this to be a major problem in my work.

Like we needed more bugs! Any other weird stuff you have found with PPT to
PDF?

Cheers

Lisa





On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:23 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Terzian, Sharon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > ... I was just really wondering if it started off fine/accessible as a
> Power
> > Point, would it still be okay when converted?
>
> Exporting a PDF from a correctly constructed PowerPoint file will be
> better than the complex mess you currently have. But it won't be perfect.
>
> The PPT to accessible PDF workflow has some shortcomings and also some
> tragic bugs that were recently introduced by either Microsoft or Adobe
> (such as lists coming out as P tags).
>
> But no matter how well you construct the PPT, you'll still have a myriad
> of graphic parts to artifact manually in Acrobat after the PDF is made
> because there is no way to label anything as an artifact in PPT.
>
> You will, however, be able to improve the reading orders.
>
> One idea: we've moved many of our presentations to Adobe InDesign where we
> have micro-control on everything and can export a perfect (or very nearly
> perfect) accessible PDF that looks like a PowerPoint...but better!
>
> --Bevi
>
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