Hi, There are some pointers about using Preview to read PDFs on Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver site:
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/preview5.html I also posted a reply on this last fall in the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/disc...@macvisionaries.com/msg43286.html (Re: VoiceOver and PDFs) Under Leopard there are some instances where VoiceOver focus is more finicky than under Tiger. Preview is one of these. My post, and a good bit of what's on Tim's site was written using Preview under Tiger, and modified. You can currently use Find to locate strings in Preview, but you can only navigate to the page, not to the locations of individual words and phrases on that page. When you use Command-F to find a string, a list of matching occurrences gets listed in Preview's sidebar. If you navigate with VO-Right arrow from the main text page to the sidebar, there are a list of matching page occurrences. The main window does update to the next occurrence, but the VoiceOver focus placement in the main window is problematic. Selecting the page from the sidebar works, but puts you at the start of the page. I'll have to do some experimentation on this. Cheers, Esther On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > This is also my question: I haven't found a way of finding a string > of text I want in Preview so any clues would be welcome. > > Simon > On 18 Mar 2009, at 01:52, Eliza Cooper wrote: > >> >> Hi List, >> How about using the find feature in preview? When you have >> searched for text, how do you navigate to the resulting section? >> Eliza >> On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: >> >>> >>> Usually, you can just open the PDF file in preview, then interact >>> with >>> the scroll area and read away. >>> On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> hi how dos one read a pdf file on the mac using vo? eny thoughts on >>>> this? >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
