Sharon, You can read a pdf with Adobe reader or Acrobat reader.
But Jaws2018 can OCR / scan a pdf, so you donn't need a program. When in explorer select de pdf. Press the application key and press j. The option is: recognise with Jaws. The ressult is not allways even good as with an real pdf program, but you can scan the pdf. Also when the pdf is an image. I thought that Word 2016 can also open pdf files. And Jaws2018 can also use Edge, but it is not on by default. Go to settingscenter by ressing ins-f2. Go to default config with ctrl-shift-d. TGype: edge and arrow down. Here you can turn on Edge suport. If you find it will cause problems, then you can turn it off the same way. regards, marten On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 02:51:40 +1000 "Sharon S" <ko...@areujoking.com> wrote: > Hi all, I have been sent a document I really need to read as soon as > possible but it is a PDF and it appears I don't have a program on my laptop > to read these. When I tried to open it straight from the email it opened in > edge and I couldn't read anything. After I saved it to a folder in my > documents and went to open it I got a list of programs I could use to open > it but all I tried couldn't display the document. I tried opening it in > notepad and got a lot of rubbish instead of what it was meant to be. So now > I am wondering what the best program to use with Jaws 2018 and windows 10 is > and where can I get it from? > > > > I've been having trouble making the person on the other end understand what > format I need because the first time she sent it to me it was a picture > which of course Jaws couldn't read so I asked her to send it again in a word > file. She then sent me a screen shot of the document so again I had to > explain that jaws doesn't read pictures and asked again for a word version. > She is working on an iPad so she didn't have access to word so she finally > sent me the PDF version. I'm afraid that this too will be a picture rather > than an actual PDF but to find this out I need a program that will open it. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > From Shaz. > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
