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Re: Custom bullets in InDesign and Actual Text

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Nov 9, 2022 3:32PM

Thanks for this great tip, Bevi, and for the great question, Christine!
I did not know about that tool: I've spent several lost hours going
through PDFs fixing bullets in the past couple years. I definitely need
to spend more time reviewing and discovering all the other options
hidden away in that Preflight tool!

Phil.

Philip Kiff
D4K Communications

On 2022-11-09 12:27, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Here's an update on this topic from my last post in 2013:
> [....]
> 3. Acrobat has beefed up its tools for PDF glitches like this one. In the Preflight tool panel, look for the tool to "Set Labels in Unordered List to Generic Bullet Character" which will put "bullet" as the actual text on all bullet glyphs. Then select "Fix" in the very lower right of the panel. (Please don't edit this utility.)
>
> FYI, there are several more fix-ups like this one in Acrobat Pro's Preflight utility that clean up a whole lotta under-the-hood programming in PDF files so that they now pass not only Acrobat's checker, but CommonLook and PAC, as well. One click, give it a few seconds, and boom...done. For the entire file. Even if we could do this in InDesign, it's faster in Acrobat.