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Re: Acrobat dropping some table cell properties

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Date: Mar 8, 2019 5:05PM

I would check whether the table cells are really all fine. Good tools to quickly check that are the free PAC 3 ( → Screen Reader Preview) and the free callas pdfGoHTML plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Olaf


> On 8. Mar 2019, at 23:07, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Elizabeth! I think you are on to something. I edited both PDF files. This
> last one, however, wasn't edited after I know that all table cell
> properties were correct.
>
> Dona
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 3:47 PM Elizabeth Thomas < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Dona,
>> I'm wondering if the source document might be the issue. I've had weird
>> things like that happen when the source document was created in an older
>> version of Excel or Word. I've also had attributes disappear if I've edited
>> the PDF at all. In those cases, I had to add the attributes again.
>> Generally, it has happened when the source document was from an older
>> version of Office (or was in an older file format).
>>
>> Sorry- not sure if that's at all helpful!
>>
>> -Elizabeth
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Mar 8, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
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