MadeToTag

axaio MadeToTag is an Adobe InDesign plug-in to properly prepare InDesign documents for export as an accessible, tagged PDF file. The MadeToTag UI allows step-by-step guidance leading any customer safely and intuitively through the procedure of generating tagged PDF files, without missing any important step.

Release notes

General:

  • Release MadeToTag for Adobe InDesign 2021

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug where captions where placed at wrong position in tag tree
  • Fixed a bug where Umlauts are not properly displayed
  • Fixed a bug where “link footnotes” returns an error even on success
  • Fixed a bug where creating a PDF/A-2a fails
  • Fixed “Alternate text missing for Formula structure element” error when working with MathML
  • Fixed a bug where the post processing of the PDF failed randomly
  • Fixed a bug where “object is locked” was displayed when using optimization of anchored frames

Bug fixes:

  • Irregular placement of list captions; fixed
  • Order in BlockQuotes was wrong; fixed
  • Applying fixups for table headings/footers failed when containing a cross reference; fixed
  • Enabling and disabling table cell highlighting takes too long; fixed
  • Working in table smart headers mode crashing InDesign; fixed

Features:

  • New export tags: Caption, BlockQuote, Index

Bug fixes:

  • Paragraph styles in groups are recognized better
  • Form field template dropdown updates regularly
  • Text without paragraph style is also found in table cells
  • Improved status update for tasl 1 (export tags)
  • Multiple fixes for better reliability

Features/Enhancements

  • New: show existing alternative texts for graphical elements in overview

Bug fixes

  • Optimized language detection when exporting books
  • Improved status update for task 5 (languages)
  • Fixed problem in table tagging feature processing
  • Optimization of anchored frames led to missing table header; fixed

Features/Enhancements

  • Tabulator in dialog for alternate text overview selects next image
  • Small redish line under active button in task 2

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug in table tagging where smart headers have not been fully assigned
  • Dialog for alternate text overview does not lose text when resizing
  • Table headers are not merged when containing headings

Features/Enhancements

  • New pdfEngine version integrated
  • Linking of Footnotes
  • Tables can be tagged as "layout table"

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a crash in optimizing anchored frames
  • Fixed an InDesign bug where rotated anchored frames were shifted
  • Fixed a problem with unstable behavior while PDF post processing
  • Fixed a problem where PDF bookmarks was removed
  • Fixed a problem with wrong PDF bookmark structure
  • Fixed a problem where the Preview was not properly generated
  • Fixed a problem where heading levels were not merged in all valid cases
  • Fixed a problem where form fields template was sometimes not found
  • Fixed a problem where Metadata and alternate text review failed on some documents
  • Fixed a problem where export did not work with some file names
  • Fixed a problem with advanced table tagging
  • Fixed a problem where Table of Contents was not optimized

Features/Enhancements

  • New pdfEngine version integrated

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a crash in anchored frames
  • Fixed a problem with unstable behavior while PDF post processing
  • Fixed a problem where PDF bookmarks was removed
  • Fixed a problem with wrong PDF bookmark structure
  • Fixed a problem where the Preview was not properly generated
  • Fixed a problem where heading levels were not merged in all valid cases

Features/Enhancements

  • "Reduce structure to predefined types" (will flatten tags to P, H1, H2, etc. not using role map)
  • Updated pdf post processing engine (pdfEngineSDK 9.1.411)
  • Stability of export process improved

Bug fixes

  • Table tagging (ATT) did mix up order of tables
  • Table tagging (ATT) could not applied to some tables
  • Table of Contents (TOC) could sometimes not be found
  • Reshuffle Anchored Frames (RAF) was not successful
  • RAF and TOC left some dummy images inside the PDF
  • InDesign did hang on second export or preview

Bug fixes

  • Alternate text overview saves edited text on scrolling.

Mixed

  • Updated help files.

New features

  • FormFields

Improvements

  • Temp copy of doc while export has better name for identification.
  • Temp copy of doc does not show in recent files list.
  • Meta data: title + author only one line, apply + update improved.
  • pdfEngineSDK V.9.0.399.1.

Bug fixes

  • Minor changes on PDF Bugfixing.
  • Debugging: when folder "debug" is placed inside of "MadeToTag" in preferences folder then all created files during PDF export are copied to this folder.