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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Mar 8, 2019 9:33AM

I think Acrobat is gaslighting me. I have recently remediated two PDF files
that contained some complex tables to which I added id and headers
attributes. After saving (as) the file the id attributes have remained but
the associated headers and the row/column span attributes have disappeared.

I know these attributes were there just an hour ago because I ran it
through JAWS to make sure it was reading properly and made some fixes,
always saving (as).

This is not the only time I have seen this either and I think it has
happened to colleagues.

Is this a software bug? Perhaps something is wrong with my installation of
Acrobat professional?

Has anyone else seen this happen?

Thanks for any feedback.

Dona