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:
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- 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.
- When you complete setting the order, click Accessibility > Apply Area Order to apply the order.
- In the Content and Order panels, you can also see the changes of the reading order.