[Athen] Problems with Access features of Adobe Pro 9

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks E.A.,

The file I used did have tags. It was a funky lab. Maybe that was a factor.

-Howard

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, E.A. Draffan <ea at emptech.info> wrote:


> Just tested an accessible PDF on Vista with version 9 and it seemed to work

> - inaccessible PDF did horrible things and looked as if it had been put

> into

> a compression chamber by the time I set it to 400 zoom and then tried to

> reflow - back to 150 and it still had a few wobbles, not till I turned off

> reflow did the text return to normal.

>

> Best wishes E.A.

>

> Mrs E.A. Draffan

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> Subject: [Athen] Problems with Access features of Adobe Pro 9

>

> Hello All:

>

> I conducted a hands-on workshop on accessible pdf yesterday - something I

> haven't done in a while. I tested everything in Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.12 on

> my

> XP Pro pc.

>

> Of course, the lab had a different configuration - Vista with Adobe 9 Pro.

> I

> couldn't get the reflow feature or the reordering feature to work

> correctly.

> For he former, reflow simply did not work - when I enlarged text, it would

> simply move out beyond the view of the window and not wrap to the new

> borders. For the latter - reordering - I couldn't "select" graphic items

> that had been identified as artifacts by Acrobat, in order to include them

> in the tag structure.

>

> Has anyone had this experience - is this a bug in Acrobat 9, Vista?

>

> Thanks,

> Howard

>

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Howard Kramer
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