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1. Re: Read Out Loud won't read tags, reads content instead
CtDave Nov 27, 2013 6:16 PM (in response to DejanTeranet)Dejan,
ROL is not an assitive technology feature. It is a simple, simple text to speech feature. Adobe has never presented it as anything other than that.
Being what it is ROL has no "awareness" of PDF tags or logical strucure.
Be well...
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2. Re: Read Out Loud won't read tags, reads content instead
DejanTeranet Nov 28, 2013 7:07 AM (in response to CtDave)Hi Dave,
Thanks for you quick reply. I understand that the ROL feature is not A.T. and I also read other replies by you on this subject to other people, but if I run it on a simpler PDF that was built fully in Adobe Acrobat, it reads the tags properly, like in this PDF:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ta2bky
It does not read the Header and the "Page 1 of 1" footer, and it reads the Actual text field for the paragraph tag, thus FYI is read out loud as For Your Information. So it seems that ROL feature is aware of the tags, but for some reason it ignores them in the PDF I create programatically using a third party library, so I am wondering if that means there is something wrong with the pdf.
Thanks,
Dejan
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3. Re: Read Out Loud won't read tags, reads content instead
a C student Nov 28, 2013 11:49 PM (in response to DejanTeranet)Hi Dejan,
When I view your first example file in the Acrobat content pane, I notice some of the Artifact containers are nested inside of content containers. I suspect that is part of the problem. But - when I try to fix things I get Acrobat to crash, or ROL to say "Warning empty page", or several other crazy errors. I tried a few other things like converting to Word and printing to PDF and XPS - all with odd unhelpful results. The file seems to be corrupt or possessed or it just does not like me. Also, I was not able to duplicate your success with PAC 1.3 or 2. In my experience the example file fails both. Sorry to not be helpful. I think you are on the right track by suspecting is wrong with the PDF - the file itself may be broken.
a 'C' student
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4. Re: Read Out Loud won't read tags, reads content instead
DejanTeranet Nov 29, 2013 6:46 AM (in response to a C student)Hi "a C student",
Thank you for your reply.
In order to make a sample of the pdf I changed actual code to produce the PDF I have linked to in my original post, and I didn't actually check that it passes PAC 1.3 and 2.0, as I simply believed that my code change did exactly the same thing that the production code does. It of course did not, and I gave you a "possessed" PDF Sorry about that. Here is a new sample, this time done a bit better
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ndajik
In PAC 1.3 it only warns about bookmarks, in 2.0 it fails the font embedding which should not be an issue and says PDF/UA identifier is not set - this might be the issue, but I do not know how to set it, I understood that all I need is to have the Title, Language and some other metadata fields set for the PDF to be PDF/UA compliant.
Anyway, I hope this sample works out better for you
Thanks,
Dejan
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5. Re: Read Out Loud won't read tags, reads content instead
CtDave Dec 1, 2013 6:31 PM (in response to DejanTeranet)I understood that all I need is to have the Title, Language and some other metadata fields set for the PDF to be PDF/UA compliant.
Sorry. No. A PDF, to be PDF/UA compliant requires rather more.
Do read / study ISO 14289-1 and 14.8 of ISO 32000-1
Some additional informative reference information:
http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/Standards/Committees/PDFUA
Be well...



