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From: L Snider
Date: Mar 28, 2023 1:32PM

I echo was Steve said....It is funny, I was just using it last week and
thinking it was soooo 1996! For most of the fixes, in my experience, I have
had to do them outside Preflight. I find it one of the worst things to use
for usability.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 1:33 PM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I find that the Preflight tool only helps to fix a few of the PDF/UA
> issues we encounter. We fix most of the issues in other ways, mostly in
> the Tags panel. It's also worth noting that the Commonlook PDF Validator
> tests for PDF/UA conformance more thoroughly than PAC2021. And there are
> some tests you have to do manually.
>
> If it's any consolation, I am fully sighted but find the Preflight dialog
> difficult to understand. I don't think it has changed in the 18 years I
> have been doing PDF remediation and it could seriously do with a redesign.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>
>