I'm responsible for remediating a PDF that has been generated by a third-party, proprietary system for which I have no access to the layout or design. The goal is to pass the adobe acrobat DC accessibility checker before publication.
Some of the tables in the PDF span multiple pages horizontally (i.e. with a page break at column 4 of 7). Thus far, I have designated each piece of text content as a "Cell" and grouped those into a "Table Row" tag and defined each header and sub-header as a "Table Header Cell".
However, Acrobat DC seems to get confused as to the relative size and spacing of each table element. It is creating phantom column headers and rearranging or combining rows in order to fit the appearance of a more standard layout PER PAGE. But since I need one cohesive table to span TWO PAGES, this is breaking my accessibility.
Depending on how I nest my table elements, I get a table layout like one of the two examples below:
Example when including blank cells for multi-column header rows
Example when defining the column span of multi-colum header rows as "7"
As you can see, the layout is not uniform and does not pass regularity checks. Plus, as I add more rows with several blank cells, the table editor produces an error that reads:
"Unknown Table Structure Encountered"
The only way I have managed to remove this error, is to exclude the bolded main-section sub-headers from the tag structure entirely, but I cannot just leave them as untagged content and pass the checker.
Please help.
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Kevin, thanks for replying. Because of the malformed grid, I cannot even click on the cells on Page 2 in order to associate headers. Is there a way to define table structure without using the Table Editor mode? – Glamador Apr 3 at 12:27
but don't have the rep yet to do so:
Glamador - Knowing it can't help you half a year ago but might in the future: I encountered this in a document this week and figured out the "Why" and how to get the Table Editor back, but not the "Easiest/best way to solve" the tagging in Acrobat. This issue is denying you Table Editor is with the table header (TH) cell you created that spans multiple pages.
So if you set a table header cell to something like Row Span: 7, and 3 of those are on the second page Acrobat will give you the "Unknown table structure encountered. Please retag this table using the Reading Order Tool to possibly fix the problem." error any time you try to use the Table Editor on the table that has that [table header cell with a multi-page row span/I'm not working with but assume column span too].
To get your Table Editor use back (not solving the tagging of accessibility, but to quit getting that error on your table,):
Go to your tags
Create a new empty Table Header Cell
Drag the content displayed in the tag from the problem TH to your new TH
Delete the [multiple page row/column spanning, but now empty] problem TH
Repeat if you did this in multiple TH in the same table
You can now use Table Editor again
Note: Because you can't use the Table Editor once these problem headers have been created you can't use it to see which TH's you have set to span multiple pages, or see those row/column spans, so you're going to have to just look at your document if you went through tagging and are going back and checking later and figure out which are the likely problem headers to replace. If you create that header span again in the table that goes across multiple pages you'll be unable to use the Table Editor again until you delete that tag with the page spanning issue.
I haven't found if you can combine TH Row Span settings with IDs/Associated Header Cell IDs and have the user software identify both, so I've been doing the tedious ID association on large but simple tables as my "It's tagged correctly" option, but unfortunately it isn't nearly as fast and easy as Row Spans.
You can edit the tag's object properties by right-clicking on the tag and then you can add an ID there if it doesn't already have one. Be sure each data cell is associated with a header cell. PAC's screen reader preview will also give a good view of the layout to help you get everything associated correctly.
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I am creating a data-merge document in InDesign.
There are various tables that I've created which only show as many rows as there is actual data in the field, through some creative table and cell styles.
Now I've been asked to only have an entirely separate table only show if there is information in any of those fields.
I'm at a total loss. With the way the current structure is set up, I can cause it to not display any text, but it still shows empty header cells and one line of empty row cells.
Pre-DataMerge, with the data fields
Post-Datamerge, with the resulting empty cells
Any creative ideas to hide that table? I was thinking there might be a way to hide the entire text field, if not the table. Maybe a script? I tried one that deletes blank tables, but that didn't seem to work after the data-merge was run.
I am not sure you can get that level of processing with InDesign datamerge. You could think of a script to post remove those tables or use a dedicated plugin such as Easycatalog that can take care of such empty items natively.
I cannot figure this out for the life of me.
I want a report object where each page (no matter how big, small, etc) corresponds to one record in the underlying source query (each record corresponds to a Client along with some financial data).
I've tried grouping by Client, inserting page breaks, trying to integrate forms, etc. Nothing. Everything just combines together into one giant list -- there's no separation per page.
Select the Group Header and view Properties (F4). It should be named something like GroupHeader0. For the Force New Page attribute, select Before Section, After Section, or Before & After Section.
The hardest part of this for me was finding the correct item to click that has the Force New Page attribute -- it isn't the field itself, but the Section (which is named "GroupHeaderX" by default).
I'm automating a word document in vb.net. My problem is I need a table within another table to repeat the first row. Is there any way to do this?
The table's textwrap is set to none, and the first row is the only one that has the repeat has header property set.
I CAN'T take the table out of it's containing table. This solution is not an option.
This has nothing to do with the fact that the document is automated too.
Using word 2010.
I just did a quick test with Word 2010.
I created a table, and checked "repeat as header row at the top of each page".
Sure enough, that worked.
Then I created another table, and cut/pasted the first one into it.
The header was not repeated in the Word UI, although the property remained set.
I had a quick look around for properties which might affect the behaviour of nested tables, but couldn't see any.
Then I googled "word nested table repeat header row", which returns quite a few relevant results.
Conclusion: you can't make a header row in a nested table repeat on subsequent pages. Tricks like putting it inside a content control didn't seem to work either.
I have created web kit report for HR Timesheet Employees Attendance.I have generated report having 10 pages. But I face little problem over here,report contains a table which is continue in next pages.It is dynamic.So The problem is on the next page table header is not shown.
I want to show table header on every page if the table continues on next pages.
Looks like table headers are a known issue with webkit. That bug report does suggest some workarounds, but they don't sound very promising.
If you decide to go back to the RML reports, the ReportLab documentation describes the repeatRows attribute for a blockTable.
The repeatRows argument specifies the number of leading rows that should be repeated when the Table is asked to split itself. The repeatCols argument is currently ignored as a Table cannot be split by column.
I haven't tried it myself, but it also appears in some of the OpenERP documentation.
ok so u have tables that repeats and currently its overwritten on the header of you page template ...the problem is with the frame height just adjust the frame height a bit less than the current value in the rml file.
for eg:
<frame id="first" x1="18.0" y1="42.0" width="535" height="600"/>
it will get solved i too had the same problem and solved it by adjusting the frame id. this is the link of the question i asked: Reports in rml of Openerp
I wrote a very simple drag and drop style report screen online so users can specify labels and fields etc much like an MS Access Report. I am having an issue getting this to output as PDF and I am using MigraDoc. The TextFrame allows you to specify a Left/Top which is good but I need to do this for multiple rows and I can't quite get it to work in this way.
At present I tried to add a table and a row (for each record) and put textframes within this with the left/top properties but every field gets put in the same place i.e. 0,0 and the records flow over both the header and footer?
I am using c#