11.2.1 for Windows

Foxit PDF Editor
Chapter 12: Accessibility User Manual
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Tips: In the Order panel, you can use Ctrl-Click to select multiple tags as you click, or Shift-
Click to select a listed group of tags between the first and the last tag you click. Then you
can move them or right-click them to do more actions.
Set area reading order
Foxit PDF Editor provides a visual and more efficient way to change reading order
directly in the document view. You just need to draw areas around the desired content
in the document pane and reset the reading order for them. For documents with
multiple columns or other complicated structure, this feature improves the
productivity to set reading order, instead of dragging and dropping tags in the Order
panel.
To set area reading order, do the following steps:
1. Choose Accessibility > Set Area Reading Order, and click OK in the prompt
telling you to draw areas and set the reading order. You can click Don’t show
again in the prompt so that you won’t be bothered the next time you set area
reading order.
2. The cursor changes into a cross . Drag a rectangle where you define it as a page
content group. You can resize the rectangle by dragging the handles, or delete
the rectangle by pressing Delete.
3. After you finish drawing areas where you want to change the reading order, click
Accessibility > Change Area Order. You can see each area is numbered in an
order that you drew them.
4. You can adjust the order as needed by clicking on the areas. As you click on the
areas, numbers and arrows appear in red, indicating the order you set.
5. When you complete setting the order, click Accessibility > Apply Area Order to
apply the order.
6. In the Content and Order panels, you can also see the changes of the reading
order.
Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
For the content reflow and tagging problems that cannot be fixed by the Reading
Order command, the Content and Tags panels provide you with more options to
handle them.