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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
True. There are more untagged than tagged documents out there, as far as I can tell from anecdotal evidence. It would be nice if there was a way to determine the existence of tagging, either before downloading, or before opening, but I don't know of one... even Adobe can't tell you that until you actually open the file.
(Of course, there'd be no issue if every PDF creator simply tagged all of their documents...)
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Unfortunately most programs used to create PDF files do not support tagging and even the after the fact activesync is going by the wayside as Vista doesn't support it. Basically the tools to create tagged documents all belong to Adobe and they charge a lot for their use. They include InDesign, Acrobat, Framemaker. I know of no free program other than ActiveSync that will create tagged files. The Adobe Reader on the PC will temporarily tag a file and I wrote them to ask that there be a way to save the tags it added in a future version of Adobe Reader but it didn't make it in to version 9. Adobe needs to make a way to add tagging that if free IMHO.
Dale