artifacting a tag not working

[Minka316]

Hello. I am attempting to artifact a <p> structure that is inside a table. The <p> tag is for the horizontal and vertical lines within the table. When I open the tag and select "change tag to artifact" from the pop-up menu, nothing happens. The container remains withe the "path" remaining. When I open the properties, the type is 'artifact'. Should the contain not become empty if it's tagged as an artifact?  I can't delete the tag because it's not empty. 

when I go to the content panel and attempt to make the items there an artifact, I generally get the same result. The artifact remains. How do I remove the lines/<p> tag so that when I run PAC 2.0 it does not appear as an errors?

Thanks, Marion

[a_C_student]

Hi Marion,

"I can't delete the tag because it's not empty." Why not? What happens, exactly, when you try to delete the tag?

How are you trying to create the artifact in the Content pane? It generally works for me to drag the content to be artifacted out of the P container, select it, right click, and "Create artifact".

On the other hand, sometimes PDFs are just possessed. You might just have one of those.

[Minka316]

HI. Thanks for the quick reply.

I can't use 'delete empty tag' because it's not empty. I supposed I could use 'delete tag' but then would I not get an error message when I run the pac checker?

To create an artifact in the Content pane -> I right-clicked it and selected 'Create Artifact'. Didn't seem to do anything. Anyways, I solved the problem.  Problem was that the table that was in my document (which was created in Word) contained a <p> code for each of the table's border lines. I ended up using the Reading Order tool and artifacted each of the <p> codes that way and it worked. It removed all of the <p> tags and associated pathpathpath containers with it.3

Thanks again, Marion