Adobe 22020737 Acrobat X Pro Manual - Page 285

USING ACROBAT X PRO 279 Accessibility, tags, and reflow Save as accessible text for a braille printer Note: This document uses the term "braille printer" to refer to any device that is used to convert accessible text to a form that can be used by a person with blindness or low vision. You can save a PDF as accessible text to print on a braille printer. Accessible text can be imported and printed out as formatted grade 1 or 2 braille documents by using a braille translation application. See the documentation included with the braille translator for more information. A text version of a PDF contains no images or multimedia objects, although the text version of an accessible PDF contains alternate text descriptions for such objects if they have been provided. ❖ Choose File > Save As > More Options > Text (Accessible). Reflow a PDF You can reflow a PDF to temporarily present it as a single column that is the width of the document pane. This reflow view can make the document easier to read on a mobile device or magnified on a standard monitor, without scrolling horizontally to read the text. You cannot save, edit, or print a document while it is in Reflow view. In most cases, only readable text appears in the reflow view. Text that doesn't reflow includes forms, comments, digital signature fields, and page artifacts, such as page numbers, headers, and footers. Pages that contain both readable text and form or digital signature fields don't reflow. Vertical text reflows horizontally. Acrobat temporarily tags an untagged document before reflowing it. As an author, you can optimize your PDFs for reflow by tagging them yourself. Tagging ensures that text blocks reflow and that content follows the appropriate sequences, so readers can follow a story that spans different pages and columns without other stories interrupting the flow. To quickly check the reading order of a document, view it in Reflow view. If the tagged PDF doesn't reflow the way you want, see if the content order or reading order of the PDF file contains inconsistencies. Also check the tagging process. You can use the Content pane or TouchUp Reading Order tool to resolve reflow problems. If the problem is that words don't hyphenate the way you expect them to, you can insert special characters to resolve the problem. (See "Insert special characters" on page 329.) Headings and columns (left) reflow in a logical reading order (right). Last updated 10/11/2011