MadeToTag
The complete list of new features, bug fixes and changes of the latest versions can be found here:
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug, where creating a PDF from opened book was not possible
Fixed a bug, where opened book was closed after creating the PDF
Fixed a bug, where character style was applied to text anchors that might cause text shifts
Fixed a bug, where internal error was thrown on export (“kRafV2CmdBoss failed“)
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where the InDesign keyboard shortcut set was not reset to the correct one after turning off MadeToTag shortcuts
Fixed a bug where MadeToTag axaioDefaultUser keyboard shortcut set was set even when the user switched to another set
Fixed an InDesign bug where the font was missing while collecting all data before output
Fixed an InDesign bug where documents with linked InDesign documents cannot be processed correctly due to missing fonts
Fixed a bug where text looked different after export due to an applied character style
Fixed a bug where an empty preview dialog was shown (mostly on unsaved documents)
Fixed a bug where no export could be done because the export button was not enabled
Improvements:
Updated the problem locator “Set export tag as prefix…” to also add “BlockQuote/Index/Caption” to prefix
“Manage form fields...” folder now has a README file
Debug folder will be emptied before processing
New Feature:
Improvements:
In Book mode: fixed PAC warning 'Possibly inappropriate use of a “Link” structure and “Figure” structure' when having a link on an image/logo
Improvement when suggesting a new article name
Initial PDF view can be “show with bookmarks panel”
[Mac ARM] Enhance speed of post processing by running post processing natively on Mac ARM machines
MadeToTag with additional entry in the plug-ins menu of InDesign
Pre-Check documents for missing articles on export
“Deactivation“ entry has been added to the about dialog
Bug fixes:
Where bookmarks were incorrect when automatically created by post processing
Where tables shift from right to left page with optimize anchored frames enabled
In book mode, where fonts have been missing for output
In book mode, where links in table of contents where not correct
Where paragraph styles inside a style group were not post-processed correctly
In „Export as“ dialog, where the prefilled pdf filename was incorrect when the InDesign file name contained a dot (e.g. 01.filename.indd)
Where the “Export Tags | Language” fly out menu entries were not updated
Where the problem locator “Set export tag as prefix…” only returned „error“
Where InDesign crashed on macOS InDesign 2024 with MadeToTag installed
In table tagging structure, where table elements were missing an “/O”-attribute
General:
General:
Improvements:
For documents with multiple authors, only the first one was shown in the metadata and alternative text review
Fixed minor syntax errors
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where TBody remover was no longer executed
Fixed a bug where objects did not show up in the tag tree when “Optimise Anchored Frames” was used
Fixed bug where objects from groups did not show up correctly in the tag tree
Fixed a bug where Smart Header edit mode also activated spreads output
Bug fixes:
Implemented a fix for “possibly inappropriate use of a “Link” structure and “figure” structure” when having a link on an image/logo
Fixed a bug where role mapping was not working as expected for predefined tags
Fixed a bug where images where outputted twice when using “Optimize anchored frames”
Fixed an InDesign bug where anchored frames went missing when more than one level was used
Fixed a bug with commata in book title
Fixed a bug where copy+paste into the save dialog did not work
Fixed a bug where “Internal error when applying ATT to PDF” was shown on export resp. tables where not correctly tagged when having tables across multiple pages
Fixed a bug where MadeToTag created PDF with syntax issues
Fixed a bug where linking footnotes caused a paragraph to lose its drop capital
Fixed a bug where footnotes over multiple pages cause MadeToTag to hang
Improvements:
Improved “Review alternative text for images” to work better with multiple documents open
Alt text is now applied when entered in “Review alternative text for images”, not only on closing the dialog
“Review alternative text for images” shows alternate text for groups in the same way that InDesign does
Improved UI handling:
Keyboard shortcut state is stored and re-applied after InDesign restart
Open task panel is stored and re-applied after InDesign restart
Fixed a bug where metadata (author, title, keywords) in task 4 were not applied
Some minor tweaks
Misc:
Bug fixes:
Fixed bugs with table tagging
possible mixup of tables (working on another table than expected)
fixed “can’t set QTH table …”-error
remove <TBody> from table if no THead/TFoot is present also when exporting books
Fixed a crash in alternate text overview
Fixed display bugs in meta data and alt text review
Fixed a bug where text moved when link footnotes was enabled
New Feature:
Improvements:
For more secure output, on book export a local package is created before
Update post processing engine
Multiple minor adjustments for UI elements (e.g. better fit text, UI icon for panel, …)
Various updates for more stable processing
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where the [Default] keyboard shortcut set was not working as expected in InDesign (e.g. Enter not working)
Fixed a bug where preview was not generated
Fixed a bug where InDesign crash when “Link footnotes” was enabled
Fixed a bug where text was shifted when “Link footnotes” was enabled
Improvements:
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where the [Default] keyboard shortcut set was enabled instead of the custom set
Fixed a bug where “Caption (Table, at bottom)” was placed at the top of the table
Bug fixes:
Functionality “Remove single P tag from footnotes” was deactivated, as it lead to errors on some documents (e.g. “Internal error when applying ATT to PDF“)
Fixed a bug where text was re-rendered and caused text to shift
Fixed a bug where not all tables in the document where processed by table tagging
General:
New feature:
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where Acrobat mistakenly opens when creating a preview
Fixed a bug where some fixes where not applied when exporting a book
Fixed a bug where optimize form fields did not work as expected
Improvements:
Further optimize tagging structure in PDF to get rid of some PAC warnings
Selecting the output folder in relation to the InDesign file
When pdf post processor is not available, a better message and possible solution is shown
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where table tagging was not applied in preview
Fixed a bug where user was unable to undo tagging as caption
Fixed a bug where the problem locators result windows was not visible
Fixed a bug where “Locate empty paragraphs” did falsely hit for paragraphs for tables and inline anchored images
Improvements:
optimized table highlighting when resetting the table
Task 3: apply alternate text for selected image on the fly (no need for “apply”)
optimize tagging structure in PDF to get rid of some PAC warnings
“Possibly inappropriate use of a Form structure element” (set appropriate placement attribute for form elements)
“Possibly inappropriate use of a TBody structure element” (Remove TBody from Table if no THead/TFoot is present)
Miscellaneous:
ARM (Apple M1) support
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where Umlauts are messed up in the PDF title in book export
Fixed a bug where Umlauts in user name stopped proper PDF export from MadeToTag
Fixed a bug where the pdfEngine version number was not shown in Task 7
Improvement:
Bug fixes:
Fixed multiple bugs in regards to table tagging
„Internal error when applying ATT to PDF“ appeared on export
Tables where missing in table count
Crash happened when tagging tables that spread across multiple frames/pages
Enable and Disabling of smart headers edit mode is more reliable
Smart headers edit mode did crash on selecting some merged cells
Smart headers edit mode works more reliably across tables
Drag&Drop for smart headers mode does also work on the second page of a multi-page table
Highlighting of tables does work better now
Tables in PDF had a wrong row count when spreading across multiple pages
Some tables could not be selected after another table was selected
Some tables lost highlighting when switching between InDesign and Word
Fixed a bug where exporting an InDesign book did not work
Fixed a bug with style names in book export
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where variables like Running Headers have not been processed correctly
Fixed a bug where caption tags appeared twice in the PDF
Fixed a bug where figure tags disappeared from PDF
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where no temp document could be created (Message: “Could not copy document to temp file” or “Package can't create folder”)
Fixed a bug where automated numbering for headings lead to false numbering when using optimization of anchored frames
Fixed an InDesign bug where text variables are incorrectly exported to PDF (Preflight message: “ToUnicode CMap with a Unicode value of U+FEFF or U+FFFE”)
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where a replacement font was used while exporting
Fixed a bug where MadeToTag crashes on export
Fixed a bug where InDesign crashes when exporting a document with missing plugin
Fixed a bug where export hangs when linking footnotes is enabled
Improvements:
Bug fixes:
InDesign (macOS) crashed when exporting print PDF and IDML after using MadeToTag export
InDesign (Windows) crashed when generating preview on unsaved document
InDesign crashed on some documents when “Optimize Anchored Frames” was enabled
When using “Link Footnotes” export could ran into endless loop
When using “Optimize Anchored Frames” it happened that table cells were resized
With some documents the error message “Object is locked” appeared
After first export, the structure order was not as expected
BlockQuote and Caption paragraphs were at wrong position in structure order
Metadata and alternate text review did not include all images
Improvment:
Improvment:
Bug fixes:
Fixed bug where “Meta data and alternate text review” missed images in threaded text frames
Fixed bug where the order of images in “Meta data and alternate text review” was not displayed as in the article
Temporarily set text color in tables to black in smart header edit mode
Fixed bug where tagging information was lost during export to PDF
Fixed bug where tables were not counted in statistics
Anchored frames are displayed in the tag tree also when used in multiple articles
Fixed bug with footnote linking for specific documents
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
General:
Feature:
Bug fixes:
Fixed InDesign bug “alternate description missing for an annotation”
Fixed crash in post processing
Fixed missing note-IDs for endnote
Better IDs for Notes
Fixes a bug with captions
Fixed a bug where “Optimize anchored frames” added a line brake
Bug fixes:
Fixes crash when adding alternative text from Chrome or Word
Fixes crash in PDF post process
Correction to the optimization feature for anchored frames, which added line breaks and unknown characters by mistake
Correction and improvements when working with captions
General:
Bug fixes:
Check for maximum images resolution of 300 ppi in export (InDesign limitation)
Fixed a bug where lists following each other
Fixed missing table headers in multi-pages tables
Fixed document title in book export
Fixed “unable to set bounding box” error
Fixed a bug where items got missing in tag tree when being in multiple articles
Performance updates when working with table tagging
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:
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
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:
Features/Enhancements:
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:
Bug fixes:
on macOS HighSierra network folder connection was not stable
Fixed crash with anchored frames
Fixed crash in PDF post processing
Several smaller fixes
Features/Enhancements:
Bug fixes:
Problem locator “Locate insufficient visual contrast” does fix colors again
When creating list paragraph styles with “Locate faux lists” numbering of lists start at 1 for new lists
Fixed “ATT Error” when exporting tagged tables
Book export enhanced for books with lots of documents
Features/Enhancements:
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:
“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