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Re: Difference between the Container tags and Structure Tags

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Dec 10, 2018 1:11PM

I've seen this before and am not sure of the exact cause. I think it may
occur when you use the Microsoft "export to PDF" engine instead of the
Adobe Acrobat plug-in "Save as PDF" engine, but I'm not quite sure. You
are right that you shouldn't have to edit the containers to match the
tags after generating a PDF.

There are several variables you can control when generating a PDF from
Microsoft Word:

* which PDF conversion engine (Microsoft vs Adobe Acrobat)
* which operating system (Windows vs. Mac version of Acrobat)
* which version of Microsoft Word
* which version of Acrobat
* which PDF options are selected for your export

If you use the most recent versions of Acrobat DC Pro and Microsoft Word
on Windows and use the "Save As" PDF option that becomes available after
installing Acrobat, then you should not run into the issue you describe.

You can try altering various options above to see if your output is
different.

Currently, I think that the Mac version of MS Word and of Acrobat
Professional DC lag considerably behind their Windows counterparts. I
would recommend against trying to generate accessible PDFs from Mac
versions of MS Word and Acrobat.

Phil.

On 2018-12-10 2:23 PM, Mark Rummel wrote:
> When I convert/save a pdf from Microsoft Word, its styles are converted to structure tags and not container tags. So when I open the Reading Order panel to check the tags, all the tags are <p> because it is reading the container tags. If I go into the properties then I can see the structure tags (they match the MS styles) and the container tags. Of course I can change it there, but that seems odd that I should have to do that.
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> Am I doing something wrong when converting the PDFs? I am selecting the online version instead of the print version when saving on this mac.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mark
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