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December 21, 2017
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cc2018 Alt-Text on Anchored Image wont display after pdf export.

  • December 21, 2017
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I'm editing my user-guides. They were built using cc2017.  I prefer to anchor the graphic frame to text by using a dual method. First place the frame over the desired location and wrap the text around it as explained in your tutorials as "Wrap Around Bounding Box or Wrap Around Object Shape." Then Second, by anchoring the frame to text (usually the end of a paragraph for jump over, or beginning of a paragraph for wrap to the right of). This ensures that if I alter the text, the image will remain in it's relative location.

Friday when I was still using cc2017, the user-guides built with this method then converted to pdf would display the alternate text quite well.

Now that cc2018 is installed, the alt-text will not display in pdf after conversion. After over 8 hours of experimenting and researching your forums, I've discovered that the alt-text will display after conversion if I remove the anchor then add the graphic frame to Articles.

I've tried completely removing an image, replacing with a brand new designated graphic frame, anchored the frame to text. The image alt-text still doesn't show up in the converted pdf if it's anchored.

I've also completed both suggested fixes. The BugFixes_Win.zip. and Don't Import previous settings and preferences.

How can anchor these images, AND have the alt-text work? I have at least a dozen user guides that I've built these last couple of years that needs updates and there is at least one image per page. Please Adobe Team, I need help, I've been trying to fix this for 3 days!

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Correct answer amaarora

Hi,

We are able to reproduce this issue and working on the fix.

The workaround for now is to remove the entries of anchored images from the Articles panel... as pointed out rightly by Cari.

-Aman

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Legend
January 15, 2018

Are you using the Article panel to control the reading order?

I have just encountered the exact same issue while working on an accessibility project, and discovered that as soon as I enable 'Use for Reading Order in Tagged PDF' from the Articles panel menu, not a single anchored object is Tagged... when exporting from CC (2018) as interactive PDF (my document contains interactive elements as well, so requires this export) and as you say it seems to be handled as an Artefact instead. IF I disable this setting, all anchored images are tagged properly (as you can see using the Reading Order panel in Acrobat).

I re-installed CC(2017) and noticed the issue doesn't exist there, so definitely appears to be a bug in CC(2018)?

Sadly the conversion back to CC(2017) isn't possible for me as I used some of the new CC(2018) features in my design that will require a lot of design rework...

System Info:

Mac OSX High Sierra 10.13.2, InDesign CC (2018) 13.0.1 build.

also ran a test on Windows 10, same InDesign build, same issue.

amaarora
amaaroraCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 15, 2018

Hi,

We are able to reproduce this issue and working on the fix.

The workaround for now is to remove the entries of anchored images from the Articles panel... as pointed out rightly by Cari.

-Aman

Participant
January 15, 2018

Thanks for the update @Aman

amaarora
Inspiring
December 21, 2017

Hi,

Can you please share the sample document and a small video showing the issue at amaarora@adobe.com?

-Aman

LoriModAuthor
Known Participant
December 21, 2017

Hi Aman. documents and email are on their way. I didn't make a video, but let me know if my written explanation isn't clear and I will make a video explanation.

Something interesting I noticed when putting the email together,

The pdf of the cc2018 user guide doesn’t even seem to recognize the anchored images as anything at all. That’s obvious when you go to the Reading Order option in the Accessibility tool. It's kind of like when you print something on used paper, like those images are part of the background or paper and not part of the document at all.

Thanks for your help.

LoriModAuthor
Known Participant
December 21, 2017

HI Aman, More Information I just found. It looks as if the images I've anchored and tagged as figures are exporting as artifacts.

BTW, those two images on pages 2-03 and 2-04 weren't tagged because I was frustrated, experimenting and forgot to re-tag them before I sent you a copy of the documents, but if you look at any of the other frames you will see that they ARE tagged as figures but in the pdf's they are artifacts. Maybe relevant info?