Dont create header/footer when autotag document.

[StephanieDeguire]

Hello!

I have a problem with accessibility tags. All the documents I generate must now be accessible but when I use the autotag function, the work is fine except that it creates elements header / footer that causes me a problem.

I NEVER want him to create a header / footer. All my documents are different so I can not go document by document, page by page, to put them as artifacts.

Is there a way to do that?

We do a lot of manipulations on the documents and we have to add ourselves header / footer and if we make an error, we use the remove function but, of course, all tags Header / Footer elements are removed ...

[hammer0909]

I'm not sure I fully understand your problem. Are you saying that autotag is not artifacting the headers/footers of the document and you want them to be artifacted? Autotag is hit or miss. Sometimes it does a fairly good job, other times it's downright horrendous. Please provide more information so we can give you more direction.

[StephanieDeguire]

The problem is that when I do an autotag, Adobe creates a "form XObject" object with a subtype header.

So I would like him not to do that, or a solution to remove the subtype.

Any idea?

[hammer0909 · Accepted solution]

OK, I understand what you're saying now. Autotag has absolutely no settings whatsoever to control it's methodology for tagging documents. It's all automated and built into the tool. So any remediation that you want to do will need to be done manually. You can try the fix-up in Acrobat called "Fix problems in PDF tagging structure" found in the Acrobat Preflight panel. This may address the items that autotag missed but no guarantees.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

You can also use the Order panel to select the headers/footers and manually artifact them.

•      Order Panel
•      Options menu
•      Show Reading Order Panel
•      Then drag your cursor to select the header or footer
•      Choose Background/Artifact to artifact it

You'll have to do this for each header and footer on each page. There's no automated tool for it.

The best solution is to always make a compliant source document (in Word, PowerPoint or InDesign) which is more likely to export a compliant PDF so that you don't have to do this hand work in Acrobat.

There are no good tools -- in Acrobat or elsewhere -- to fix a PDF when it wans't made correctly in the source program.