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From: Laura Roberts
Date: Nov 4, 2023 9:14AM

Bevi,
I can't for the life of me find out to disable automatic updates in Acrobat
Pro DC. There is no Updater under Edit>Preferences. I don't use Creative
Cloud because I only have a license for Acrobat, so I can't use that.
Googling just brings up old results from like 2017. Any advice would
be appreciated.
Laura

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 2:09 AM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> A major bug was recently introduced into Adobe's PDF Maker plug-in for MS
> Office / Windows.
>
> With the latest update in September-October, graphics no longer have their
> <Figure> tags placed in the correction location of the tag tree's reading
> order. Instead, they're scattered throughout the PDF's tag tree, sometimes
> 3
> or 5 or even 15 pages away from their intended location.
>
> Suggestions:
>
> 1. We need to vote this up on Adobe's bug website,
>
> https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg
> estions/47424254-pdf-maker-new-bug-puts-figure-tags-in-the-wrong
> <https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47424254-pdf-maker-new-bug-puts-figure-tags-in-the-wrong>
> So please
> vote (that's very critical to get it noticed by Adobe's powers) and add
> your
> comments to the discussion. Be sure to let Adobe know that you are required
> to make fully accessible PDFs and that this is NOT a minor bug.
>
> 2. In the meantime, use Microsoft's internal PDF export utility from
> Word. It places the <Figure> correctly in the tag tree. Our blog-tutorial
> has directions. Use Method C at
> https://www.pubcom.com/blog/tutorials/ms-office/export-pdf/index.shtml
>
> Thanks for helping make accessible documents better!
>
>
>
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Best regards,
Laura Roberts
413-588-8422