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From: Karen McCall
Date: Aug 24, 2023 6:00AM


A caveat to determining the reading order is that if you have a PDF where half of the document is English/for example and the other half is French/for example, and the English is in a column on the right and the French is in a column on the left, organize all of the English content together in the Tags Tree and all of the French content together in the Tags Tree so that someone not familiar with either language will read all of the content in the language they know without having to switch midway through a thought or paragraph and ending up lost in the document.

This goes for tri-fold brochures as well. The reading order for the first "page" should be the title panel of the brochure, followed by the inside panels and then back to the first "page" to read the last two panels in order. This is done in the Tags Tree.

Newsletters with articles broken over pages is another example of ensuring that all of an article is read together which is done in the Tags Tree.

I don't know of a way to do this in the Order Panel/Reading Order Panel or Content Panel. Those tools tend to focus on a single page rather that the logical reading order of content in the document as a whole.

Another remediation in the Tags Tree is to ensure that paragraphs, lists and tables that span multiple pages are "joined" in the Tags Tree.

Cheers, Karen