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Topic: RE: Difficulty making PDF accessible (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Accessibility, Msg: 136561
From: Duff_Johnson
Date: 7/21/2005 03:27 AM
> I am having some difficulty converting an existing PDF
> document to screen reader accessible format.
... to an "accessible PDF"... yes.
> Each time I do - headers appear to be missing once the
> document is converted.
Do you mean, some text on the page is disappearing after you add tags?
Or are the headers missing from the tags? The latter isn't usually a
bad thing...
> When I run an acessibility check it tells me I have
> 'characters with no reliable mapping to Unicode'.
OK, you most likely have a substandard PDF there.
> The software I am i using is Acrobat Professional 6 and Distiller 6.0.
>
> What can I do?
Well, you could try refrying the PDF (printing it through Distiller),
and then try tagging that. There are some 3rd party tools that will
have a go at fixing Unicode mapping issues - PDF Enhancer comes to mind,
and the demo is free. Ideally, go back to the application that created
the PDF and ensure your fonts are all present, etc. Create the PDF
through Distiller (maybe you already did?), and try tagging it again.
Duff Johnson
Document Solutions, Inc.
http://www.document-solutions.com
