This cool setting in Paragraph Styles lets us apply a background tint to a paragraph of inline text. Toggle the + icon in the upper right corner of the paragraph and character styles panels to show/hide where manual formatting (overrides) appears in the InDesign layout. This helps you spot them quickly and find a better way to get the visual design you want, such as using paragraph and character styles. We now have a tool in InDesign that shows where manual overrides (aka, manual formatting) are in the layout file. Manual formatting also embeds unnecessary tags in accessible PDFs and hardwires the formatting into the file, which in turn, prevents the file from transitioning to other media as seamlessly as possible.īottom line: manual formatting clunks up your file. (Hiccups are minor problems with the file that don't cause severe barriers for accessibility, but are annoying and can cause confusion and miscommunication, so we try to avoid them when possible.) You know that manual formatting in InDesign layouts (and office documents, too) creates unnecessary code that can create 'hiccups' for assistive technologies. InDesign CC:2017.0 brings some helpful new utilities. Look for more accessibility improvements in Acrobat in the future. It doesn't work with the Order or Content panels.

Undo is available only in the regular portion of Acrobat and the Tags Panel when working with accessible PDFs. Now, when working the the Tags Panel, you can use one of the following to 'undo':

I bet this was the most-often requested feature on Adobe's Acrobat forums, at least from those who must make PDFs accessible. We review the new features that will help you make accessible InDesign and PDF files. A few weeks before, Adobe updated Acrobat DC with new features, too. In early November 2016, Adobe released updates to its Creative Cloud suite of programs.

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