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Are alt texts lost when converting Web page to PDF?

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2010-10-05 06:56:53
sophies
Registered: Oct 5 2010
Posts: 1
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Hi, I just got Acrobat Pro and I have been trying to make an accessible PDF, starting from a web page. In the HTML document all images have alt attributes. In the resulting PDF there are no alt texts any more. Do I have to manually touch up my PDF to add the alt texts, or is there a way to take them along during the conversion?

Sophie

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2010-10-06 08:19:10
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Interesting issue.
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Used Acrobat's web capture feature and the browser Adobe PDF bar to make a PDF of the BBC's home page.
This was with Acrobat 8 and Acrobat 9.
Once, with each, prior to the recent update (8.2.5 for Acrobat 8 and 9.4.0 for Acrobat 9).
Then did again after installation of the update.
In all cases, using Acrobat 8, the web page's alternate text for the images was present in the PDF.
In all cases, using Acrobat 9, the web page's alternate text for the images was not present in the PDF.
n.b., web capture (for both Acrobat's) had the 'Tagged' option selected.
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Do not know why there is a difference.
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Be well...

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