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Re: couple of questions

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From: chagnon
Date: Feb 6, 2018 3:21PM

Some comments.

1. Yes, Duff's right. Let Microsoft know you want its Export to PDF/Save as PDF utilities to make accessible PDFs. Right now, they don't. See Duff's link below for details. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-office-2b102d44-b43f-4dd2-9ff4-23cf144cfb11#platform=Windows

2. We create accessible PDFs from PowerPoint using Adobe's PDFMaker plug-in (ribbon). At some point in 2017, this workflow no longer produced correctly tagged lists. They come out with P tags, not the compound L/LI tags.

IIRC, this happened after Adobe updated PDFMaker to its current version, so I'm leaning toward pointing the PointPower-PDF finger at them for this problem. However, having been in software development and testing for more decades than I'd like to admit, it also could have been something Microsoft did during a PowerPoint update. Either company could have produced the bug. Or both.

Both companies have been notified of the problem, but I have no crystal ball as to when -- or if -- it will be corrected.

3. RE: artifacting the graphic pieces, InDesign has the tools for users to indicate that certain text frames, graphic frames, and paragraphs of text should be artifacted when the PDF is exported. I don't want to have to remediate those devils in every PDF I make, or every time I export to PDF from the same source document.

None of Microsoft's products has a similar tool and I miss it every time I have to work in MS Office.
Now there's another request to make to Microsoft!

—Bevi

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