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From: soujanya atluri
Date: Apr 20, 2019 8:38PM

Thank you Phil. This is very helpful... and I am waiting for English user
guide :) I bought the Axespdf licence two days ago for PDF remediation,
and i am trying to play with it. if you get any info from them please
share with me.

Thanks
Soujanya


On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 12:50 PM Philip Kiff < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I just found the Quick Start Guide for axesPDF QuickFix as well as a
> guide on how to use their table editor on the German side of the Axes4
> website. The QuickStart Guide looks quite detailed (119 pages), but I've
> not seen it anywhere in English:
> https://www.axes4.com/anleitungen-axespdf-quickfix.html
>
> I'll reach out to the company and see if they have anything to add to
> the discussion regarding English help for users.
>
> Phil.
>
> On 2019-04-20 15:32, Philip Kiff wrote:
> > Ha! Yes, I have to agree that figuring out how to use AxesPDF is a
> > high learning curve. I learned to use it largely through trial and
> > error. But I also found some hints from the AxesPDF QuickFix section
> > of their Help Centre:
> > https://support.axes4.com/hc/en-us/categories/200116848-axesPDF-QuickFix
> >
> > I have found the company to be reasonably responsive when I use the
> > "Submit a request" feature on their support site for registered users,
> > so you might try getting support that way instead of via email?
> >
> > I think that their main development team probably works in German and
> > materials are probably prepared in German first and then later
> > translated into English. In some cases, they may not translate
> > materials into English at all. I can read German more or less, and at
> > one point I was sent a draft of a part of a user guide in German for
> > their AxesPDF for Word plugin which I found helpful. I think they now
> > have a draft of a user guide for the AxesPDF for Word plugin in
> > English. But I haven't seen a user guide for the AxesPDF QuickFix tool
> > - for that I think they just have the Help Centre website above?
> >
> > When I was learning how to use it, I started simply by using the
> > Checker tab and running the checker to find errors. Then I would
> > search up individual errors on their website to see how to resolve
> > them. Their website is organized in a way that allows you to search
> > for solutions to many of the checker errors here:
> >
> https://support.axes4.com/hc/en-us/sections/200327928-Fixing-PDF-UA-problems
> >
> >
> > Following this approach I eventually learned how to use most of the
> > features of the software. Though after two years, there are still a
> > few features that I don't quick know what they do, or how exactly they
> > are supposed to work (!). So they definitely could do with some better
> > documentation.
> >
> > I was also thinking about making some tutorials for using axesPDF in
> > conjunction with some tips on how to remediate PDFs generally. But
> > I've not gotten around to it.
> >
> > There's one conceptual tip that I've not seen highlighted but that I
> > think might help folks understand where QuickFix might fit in an
> > efficient PDF remediation workflow. Using AxesPDF QuickFix actually
> > involves going back and forth between AxesPDF QuickFix and Acrobat
> > Professional DC. To edit tag names and properties and to do bulk tag
> > editing, I use AxesPDF QuickFix. But if you need to insert new tags or
> > move tags into a different order, then you have to go back to Acrobat
> > Pro to do that. So I always start out with Acrobat Pro and I do the
> > main tagging and the ordering of tags. From there it is a process of
> > going back and forth from AxesPDF QuickFix to Acrobat Pro based on
> > which tool does the thing I need fastest. Whenever you need to insert
> > new tags or move tags into a different order, you have to use Acrobat
> > Pro.
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> > Philip Kiff
> > D4K Communications
> >
> >
> > On 2019-04-20 14:27, Karlen Communications wrote:
> >> I have axesPDF but there are no tutorials in English. I found some in
> >> Finnish but they are for the axesPDF add-in for Word and basically
> >> just tell
> >> you how to make Word documents accessible.
> >>
> >> I've been trying to figure out how to use axesPDF and so far have had no
> >> luck. I do have a visual disability but am not relying on adaptive
> >> technology for the user interface.
> >>
> >> I've heard it is a good tool, but with no tutorials available, I
> >> found it a
> >> high learning curve, even with what I know about accessible PDF.
> >>
> >> I was going to write tutorials on how to use it but my e-mails to
> >> axesPDF
> >> asking for help in understanding the user interface have gone
> >> unanswered for
> >> about a year now and their support pages are scarce in terms of usable
> >> information.
> >>
> >> If anyone has tutorials on how to use axesPDF, please let me know. I
> >> hate
> >> having tools I should be able to use but can't.
> >>
> >> Cheers, Karen
> >>
> >>