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Re: PDf Table with one column "artifacted"

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Oct 24, 2019 2:48PM

Following on Joseph's comment here, I think this is very likely what is
happening.

I wonder how you are "artifacting" that fold column? Some methods work
better than others depending on the context. I would not try to remove
these cells using the TURO (Touch Up Reading Order) tool, nor would I do
it using the Acrobat Table Editor. I would recommend making this change
directly in the Tag tree. To remove that column, you want to actually
*delete* the one empty TD tag nested in each TR in the single large
table in the Tag Tree view.

This assumes that the table is well-formed as a single table to begin
with - which it might not be! A well-formed table with only one set of
headers, should have the same number of TD tags within each TR. When you
are done deleting the column using my method, every TR in the table
would simply have one less TD in it.

And all your TR's should be nested one-level deep inside one single
Table tag.

Phil.

On 2019-10-24 14:41, Joseph Sherman wrote:
> When you artifact the middle column, does it create two Tables in the Tag tree? That may be what the screen reader is picking up. You might be able to fix this by moving the row tags from the "second" table into the first table to make one table in the Tags tree?
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