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• • June 1, 2011 at 9:19 am #59733
    Jackspratt

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    Hi,

    I'm exporting pdf from InDesign for use on the web. The files need to be accessible, so this means being able to read out loud, and to reflow.

    My bullet paragraphs are created with Bullets and Numbering styles, with a new bullet added using unicode character 25A0 (Black square) and set in Arial Unicode (I'm not sure this is the best way to go, but it does seem the safest. I used to use a zapf dingbat, but it is read out loud as 'N' which I'm not happy with). For the bullet to sit right, and because they are in a colour different to the text, I then create a new bullet character style that baseline shifts the bullet, and colours it.

    My problem is that in reflow mode, long bullet paragraphs that flow to more than one line basically look like they have no leading and become difficult to read. I set the leading on these paras to auto hoping that might help but it hasn't.

    I've also sampled some paras without the baseline shift, and some with the bullet character set to different leadings, but nothing seems to work.

    Any ideas anyone?

    Jackie

  • June 1, 2011 at 10:10 am #59734
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Are you talking about how they look in InDesign? Or how they look in Acrobat's Reflow mode?

    When you say “no leading” do you mean each line sits on top of each other? Or just very tight?

    On the accessibility issues, we have several pages you might look at, including:

    https://creativepro.com/ado…..le-pdf.php

    Also, this movie may be helpful to some people:

    https://tv.adobe.com/watch/acce…..ssibility/

    Note that these have not yet been updated for CS5.5… and 5.5 makes accessible PDFs much easier to make! Anyone who needs to make accessible PDF files should look into upgrading.

  • June 1, 2011 at 11:53 pm #59748
    Jackspratt

    Member

    I'm talking about how they look in Acrobat's reflow mode. The lines just overlap – just enough to make it hard to read.

    I have already read the white paper, and access the video streams regularly, but will check again in case I missed something, thanks.

    I also had another play around after I posted the question and realised that any change to the size of the bullet character, or if you baseline shift it, is what causes the line spacing anomaly. The Unicode Black Square is quite small, in the end I got round this by adding a frame to the bullet instead. Not sure this is perfect, but it does work.

    NB. This might have been corrected in later versions (I'm on CS3) but I'm also having to manually change the content order in the pdf, otherwise the bullets appear at the end of the first line in Reflow mode.

    Thanks

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