Hi Guys,
I have been struggling over this for some time now. Its probably something very simple but cant seem to figure it out.
I have created a PDF from an excel sheet (an invoice) and have set this up with accessibility tags so it reads with a screen reader in a specific order and all works fine.
What i need to do is to be able to create subsequent invoices and to have the tags set up ready, not having to edit each PDF separately.
Is there a way to do this i.e. creating a template or something.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, John
Unfortunately there is little that can be done in a spreadsheet application to pre-stage for tagged output PDF.
At its lowest common denominator the spreadsheet is, after all, a table.
Selecting Enable Accessibilty and Reflow with tagged Adobe PDF in the conversion settings for the Acrobat PDFMaker does give you the table tag with its children row and cell tags; however, no header cell designation or header cell scope. Any other tags needed and read order verification/adjusting will have to be done manually with Acrobat Professional each time the output PDF is created.
For invoices you might consider doing something with MS Word. Perhaps a Word merge setup. Data from some source goes to a delimited file that is processed to be the "merge" file that feeds the MS Word invoice "form".(?)
Coming from MS Word you can establish a template of desired Styles that can be mapped to PDF tags when using the PDFMaker. This would let more of the PDF content be tagged upfront.
With that said, you'll still have to engage in post-processing with Acrobat Professional; just less of it.
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