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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.
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Choose Text (Accessible) from the Save As Type (Windows) or Format (Mac OS) menu.
In Acrobat, if you are saving the file for further braille processing, you can also choose .doc or .rtf.
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 tab 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
Headings and columns (left) reflow in a logical reading order (right).
characters" on page 330.)
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