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Topic: RE: Renaming Tags in Tagged PDFs / Changing Tag Types (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Accessibility, Msg: 144122
From: Duff_Johnson
Date: 12/22/2005 01:00 AM

> Of course I can rename the tags one by one. However this
> results in heavy work on big tag trees. Is there any more
> easy way to change the type for all tags of a specific type?
> Search and Replace in the PDF source code in a plain or hex
> editor is actually not what I want.
> Besides, if I select more than one tag and change the tag
> type only the first of the selected tags is changed. Any
> better way to do this?

This is a very reasonable question (and request) - and the answer is:
"No, there is no way at present to do what you want."

Do note that there is little difference between a tag and a

tag for the purposes of most screen-readers.

The "quickest" way to change a Tag type is via retyping... select the
tag, type a "F2", the type your new tag type, such as "

", or "

".

The BEST way to deal with this... since it seems likely that you are
using Word to create your PDFs... is to ensure that you are using Styles
in your Word file. Your tags will appear in the PDF with the same
"type" as assigned in Word's Styles.

HTH

Duff Johnson
Document Solutions, Inc.
http://www.document-solutions.com