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  • August 17, 2015 at 6:23 am in reply to: Fix text order in PDF output from InDesign export #77362
    Alesh Houdek
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    “Dear Client/Potential employer/etc: Please see attachment A for my Super Fancy Layout, attachment B if you actually want to do anything with the content” does not seem like a winning proposition.

    I’ve tried the Table route. The good news is that tables do seem to give me the flexibility I need. The bad news is that the flow of text in the output PDF is _down_ the table columns first, rather than across table rows. Next experiment I guess is to create multiple tables, one for each horizontal section of the document. No fun, but at least I will bone up on my InDesign table manipulation skills.

    August 4, 2015 at 4:52 am in reply to: Fix text order in PDF output from InDesign export #77131
    Alesh Houdek
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    (I’ve tried replying over and over, and it’s not posting. Now I’m going to try to re-phrase my entire email, maybe I am hitting some sort of deluded no-duplicate-post script?!)

    Yes, I want people who receive my email to be able to copy text from it. Need for it to be as easy and perfect for them as possible.

    I have tried creating the PDF in both Print and Interactive mode, with Tagged turned off and on, and even with the Tab Order (under Interactive) turned off and on. The PDF comes out the same in all cases, and text copied from it is in the same mis-order each time.

    I sure hope I have re-worded this enough that it will post. Thanks all for your suggestions!!

    August 3, 2015 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Fix text order in PDF output from InDesign export #77123
    Alesh Houdek
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    Hi Colleen,

    I’m sending the PDF to people, e.g. like a resume, where they’re likely to copy-paste the text into whatever text document they’ve got going. I need my file to be as bullet proof as possible.

    July 30, 2015 at 6:22 am in reply to: Fix text order in PDF output from InDesign export #77038
    Alesh Houdek
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    Hi David,

    I’m not quite sure what I should be doing in the Articles panel. I have Article 1 with one item under it. I selected it and checked “User for Reading Order in Tagged PDF” on the panel menu(!) but that didn’t help.

    I guess I will try re-creating the document from scratch and being careful about the order I create the text boxes in. That seems like it should work. Crazy that having all the boxes threaded together isn’t preserved in the exported PDF tho!

    Thanks!

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