Maintaining image Alt Text from Word to Postscript to PDF

[Allison_Mangin@adobeforums.com]

Is there any way to create a postscript file from Word 2007 that includes alt text on the images when distilled as a PDF?

I have Word 2007 files with alt text on the images. If I create a postscript file (using the print to file method on the Adobe postscript printer driver) and then distill it, the alt text is missing on the images in the PDF.

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

DON'T USE POSTSCRIPT! Postscript has no concept of alt text for images.

This is one of the many reasons why Adobe provides the "Create Adobe PDF" buttons in MSWord - which do NOT use Postscript - so that all the rich information in your document is maintained.

[Allison_Mangin@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the reply. That's what I was afraid of.

So here's the other part of this question: I have an automated process working to create PDFs using supported postscript method that I mentioned above. Now, I have a new requirement to include alt text with those PDFs. The only way I have been able to get that to work is with the PDFMaker functionality in Word. I have been able to automate it, but automating PDFMaker is not supported or recommended by Adobe. And I have found PDFMaker to be flaky, even outside the automation.

So, is there no supported way to automate the creation of PDFs from Word with alt text?

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Not with Acrobat, but maybe LiveCycle PDF Generator will do it.

Aandi Inston

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

As Aandi said - the product that Adobe offers for doing automated/batch creation of PDFs from Word (with or without tagging/structure) would be our LiveCycle PDF Generator product.