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March 28, 2023
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Tags coming in out of order

  • March 28, 2023
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Has anyone experienced tags coming in out of order and have you figured out a solution?

I work with 150 page documents where I have 60+ figures and captions, all the figure tags come in out of order. A document that is fairly clean and should not take that long to clean up is taking at least double the time trying to find and reorder my tags.

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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March 28, 2023

Hi @Irasema21762708dln9.

This can be caused by many things.

 

  1. Poor construction of the original source file from which the PDF was exported. Talking about the Word, PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign file. All graphics and sidebar boxes must be anchored into the main text reading order / content stream. Solution: A good basic class in accessible Word, PowerPoint, or InDesign should teach how to do this.
  2. Out of date software. MS Word was notorious for this with its older versions pre-2016. No matter how the file was created in older Word, it dropped the <Figure> tags all over the place, often at the bottom of the tag tree (therefore, as if they were on the last page of the document). Solution: update your MS Office and Adobe Acrobat software.

With good training and current software, you shouldn't have to do any remediation on <Figure>s.  Unfortunately, Captions still come out as <P> tags. See the Adobe feature request to fix this at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/46471306--caption-tag-from-caption-style-in-word-pdf-mak  And vote it up!

 

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