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  • Introducing the Preflight Tools in Adobe Acrobat

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    • Preflight Introduction (Begin here)

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      Introducing Preflight Tools Page

      Preflight tools are an advanced feature in Acrobat, and there is not a clear connection between these tools and what is presented in the Accessibility tools provided by Acrobat.

      This module has been created to provide an overview and convenient resource for learning about the Preflight tools, and for quick retrieval of the specific Preflight tools that help you create 508-conformant PDF documents that are as accessible as possible.

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      Finding the Preflight Profiles Panel in Acrobat Page

      You'd expect Adobe to make such a useful tool more prominently displayed and easier to find. 

      Apparently they have other issues to attend to, so here's a little help in locating the Preflight tools within Acrobat.

    • Coming Next: How to Find the Preflight Profile you Seek

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      Finding the Acrobat Preflight Profiles for Accessibility Page

      These are the Preflight Profiles for Accessibility

          • Mark all non-structural elements as artifacts.
          • Set labels in unordered lists to generic bullet characters.
          • Create content entry for link annotations.
          • Add unique ID to Note Elements in the tag structure.
          • Set PDF/UA for meta.

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    • End of Introduction. Each Preflight Profile is explained in a dedicated module below...

  • Mark All Non-Structural Elements as Artifacts

  • Set Labels in Unordered Lists to Generic Bullet Characters

  • Create Content Link for Link Annotations

  • Add Unique ID to Note Elements in the Tag Structure

  • Set PDF/UA-1 Entry

  • Conclusion: Preflight Profiles

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      Putting it to Use: Adobe Preflight Profiles Page
      Use the following keywords to search for the Preflight Profile:

      Preflights to run for accessibility:

      Search for this term to find the preflight:

      Mark all non-structural elements as artifacts.

      Non

      Set labels in unordered lists to generic bullet characters.

      Label

      Create content entry for link annotations.

      Link

      Add unique ID to Note Elements in the tag structure.

      Note

      Set PDF/UA for meta.

      UA

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