Reply To: article panel does not work

Hi David,

Thanks for your response – I value your input.

To date, I have been using the structure panel to mark up the xml structure, map styles to tags, maintain threaded text frames where possible and use inline or anchored figure frames to ensure the logical reading order and semantics are maintained in my pdf output.

However, since 5.5 I have been testing the Articles Panel to to set the reading order. I export with 'Create Tagged PDF' and 'Use Structure for Tab Order' settings and then open the pdf. When I inspect the PDF the Tag order is fine in the Tags Panel but the Order Panel shows the reading order to be incorrect.

The only way I have been able to create a logical reading order in the pdf Order Panel is by managing the z-index (stacking order) of the text and figure frames in indesign – not by shuffling things around in the PDF (as instructed by adobe). If I move elements in the Order Panel it often mixes up the tag order, breaks the Article/story structure and can produce other unwanted results, like elements dissapearing.

Am I misunderstanding the intended use for the Atricles Panel or am I right in suggesting that it does not effectivlety set the reading order in the pdf Order Panel?