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From: L Snider
Date: Aug 10, 2018 11:50AM

One thing to add, while Word now gives us the options for the alt to be
decorative (artifact), which is awesome, in my testing on Mac and PC it
doesn't translate to Acrobat Pro DC latest version. Microsoft is aware, but
I have to start to bug Adobe about it, because it annoying that it won't
translate.

I just mentioned this so others can bug both of them to change this issue,
if you contact them about the important issue Bevi mentioned below.

Cheers

Lisa



On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:38 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Joseph wrote:
> " When I try to edit the PDF where College Name and Address are, it messes
> up the spacing and moves other text around. Is there any way to get this to
> work without having to create 25 Word files, then convert and remediate
> each
> form- which would take days. "
>
> You've run into two limitations with the Word-to-PDF workflow. One is a
> Microsoft shortcoming, the other is an Acrobat bug.
>
> - Anything in a Word header or footer is automatically artifacted when the
> PDF is exported. In cases like yours where the author has placed their
> college name (or letterhead information) in the header, the PDF reading
> orders/tags leave out that critical information.
>
> You can capture that info in the PDF with Acrobat's Order Panel tool
> (formerly called the TURO tool), but you'll have to do that manually for
> each of the 25 versions of your PDFs.
>
> Tell Microsoft to give us the option of designating headers, footers, and
> other objects as artifacts or live content (like Adobe InDesign does).
> They
> just added that capability to graphics (it's in the new Alt-text dialogue),
> but we need it for many more objects and text that are common in documents.
> Forum is at https://word.uservoice.com/
>
> -The Edit tools in Acrobat Pro have a major bug; when used, they can
> destroy
> the accessibility (tags and tag reading order get changed) as well as mess
> up line breaks and visual placement on the page. That's what is happening
> to
> you.
>
> Editing a PDF will always cause these problems; the only difference is to
> what degree and how easily you can correct the changes.
>
> Caution: when editing a PDF, do check the entire PDF's tags and reading
> orders. Doesn't matter where you edited the content, the breakage in
> accessibility can occur anywhere else in the document, like on page 99 when
> the change was made on page 1.
>
> Adobe knows of this bug, but it would be helpful to keep it on their radar
> screen via the user forum at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/
>
> Solutions:
> 1. Your forms idea.
>
> 2. Don't put the college info in the header. Just make it live
> text/graphics
> at the top of the page in your Word source documents. If you have multiple
> pages in a document, learn how to designate different headers/footers on
> the
> 1st page of a document because you'll want the info live on page 1 but
> artifacted (therefore in a traditional header) on page 2 and beyond.
>
> 3. #2 above, but use a Word Content Control in the source document. Use it
> to type in the specific details for each college and then export a unique
> PDF for each college.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Bevi
>
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