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Creating a pdf from Word with changing page size and orientation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:09:08 GMT

I have a 150 page Word 2010 document, mostly in A4 portrait, but there are a number of pages in A3 Landscape dotted within it.

When I convert to pdf, it crashes and fails to generate the document.

What can I do about this to have Acrobat Pro X correctly generate the document with the specified page size and orientations.

[update]

I can now add an update to this post.

I discovered that the document was originally created and saved in Word 2002 format. Every time I used the Create PDF function, it crashed the word file and produced a repaired file.

So I then saved the repaired file in docx format, and tried again, and it correctly created the pdf without crashing.

No further comments required, problem solved.

Location of image tags

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:49:45 GMT

I am using Word 2010 and Acrobat Pro X.

I am testing the conversion of a word document to pdf and studying the location of the image tags on each page.

I will explain 3 scenarios and ask the question at the end.

(1) Using File, Print to Pdf, no tags are created. You can add tags in Acrobat, and the image tags are placed in the correct order.

(2) From Word, Create PDF, tags are created, but the image tags are placed at the end of the page structure.

(3) Send as pdf by email - image tags are created, but the image tags are placed at the end of the page structure.

Question: Why are the image tags placed in different locations depending on the method used to create the pdf.

If tags are deleted and readded in acrobat, the content of the page goes into its correct order.

How you can test this:

Create a new blank word document.

Insert some text, and a few images, then convert to pdf using the 3 methods above.

View the results of each document in Acrobat using the Tags pane, the Order pane, and the Content pane.

do you have the same results as I get.

then remove all tags, and readd them via acrobat "Add tags to Document".

Do the tags turn up in the correct order, and using the Read out Loud feature, does the page read in the correct order.

Table tags

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:26:38 GMT

I am using Word 2010 and Acrobat Pro X.

It is an annual plan with lots of financial tables, some of which spread over more than one page as one single table.

They were pasted in from Excel and correctly formatted in Word, then the file was converted to acrobat.

In testing, I then removed all tags, and used the Acrobat "Add Tags to Document" feature.

On checking some of the pages with tables I have found the following when viewed on the Order tab:

(1) failure to detect a table on the page, and the whole page of content is tagged as text

(2) tables broken up with nested tables, and some tables listed as figures.

(3) The description column of a table listed as text, and the financial columns listed as a table. there are some blank cells where a row is a subheading row with no financial data to the right.

My question is, why is the generation of tags for tables so unreliable?