Read Out Loud in two languages

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Read out loud in two languages
stewart tower - 06:52am Feb 17, 2009 Pacific
I work in an office that prepares many reports in both english and french. A common document will have the english and french running side by side; english in the left column, french on the right. Each language will be one story that flows throughout the document.
A PDF is exported from InDesign. Tags are applied to the PDF and a check of the TAGS panel in Acrobat shows that each language is one story.
What we need if for this document to be able to Read Out Loud, english in its entirety and the same for the french. However, when the document reads out loud it reads the full english column on each page but then goes to the french column on the same page.
How can we make the PDF file read each language completely without reading both english and french for each page?
Thanks.

ilhanbalamur, I am not sure what you are trying to draw my attention to on this page. As I said in my post, I KNOW how to activate the Read Out Loud feature, and my PDFs are fully accessible. Perhaps there is something in the page you suggested that I am missing, but I see nothing there that will help me troubleshoot Acrobat's crashing when I select Read to End of Page or Read This Document. Please be more specific in your comment.

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