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Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Deborah Edwards-Onoro, a key member of Refresh Detroit, has posted an excellent article, Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs. It has even been highlighted in the Acrobatusers.com News on December 2.Her ten detailed guidelines are:
- Use a structured source document
- Save/export document as tagged PDF
- Add title, author, subject and keywords
- Add bookmarks
- Initial view
- Specify the reading language
- Correct the reading order
- Use PDF Optimizer
- Enable Adobe Reader features
- Check accessibility
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4 Comments:
oh my gosh that was totally amazing i did a lot of reading but it was totally cool.
thanks for sharing such useful information. Thanks for these tips.
Ann Torres
Thanks for the great resource, I am currently working on PDF transcripts for a business and I need to make sure it's done professionally. Now I more confident it will be.
Oliver
Oliver,
Glad you found the tips for PDFs helpful. Best of luck with your PDF transcipts.
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