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From: L Snider
Date: Jun 18, 2018 4:16PM

I am now seeing that in Word too, for about 4 weeks (fast insider)...It is
driving me mad, because I like the TURO/Reading Order tool, makes it
quicker for me to see things. I actually had to use my XI version because I
got so frustrated with it. This is all on Mac...

Something in that Word release made it messy in DC 2018 Acrobat.

I have also had it where in both InDesign and Word, I only see some tags
and not others. So most will be <span> but then I will see a heading here
or there, it is so odd.

I think you were right on about 2.0, this all started to happen with
InDesign in November 2017 and Word just happened about a month ago (fast
insider)...

I will complain to them again, but Adobe still hasn't fixed the InDesign
issue, and I love InDesign now!

I now have to check everything in XI just to make sure I am seeing what the
client did and not what the programs are bugging on!

Cheers

Lisa

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:20 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Lisa wrote: " especially now that I can't use the TURO/Reading Order tool
> anymore to see what the tags are "
>
> If the PDF was exported from InDesign, then yes, we're still stuck with
> seeing <span> <span> <span> around every line of text when viewed in the
> Order panel.
>
> But this doesn't happen if the PDF was exported from Word.
>
> Lisa, are there other times when you can't see the tags in the Order panel?
>
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