Hello, Maurice Mines wrote:
> > the problem is you can't save a file in text like the windows veration > of adoby please forgive the my spelling I have a rittenexpation > disorder. Maurice, there is a File menu option to "Save as Text…" (VO-M to menu bar, press "f" to go to "File", arrow down to the "Save as Text…" option and press enter). The problem is likely to be that digital rights management disables this option. I haven't tried Adobe Reader with, say, downloadable books with DRM where you have to download additional software to read them. Some earlier list discussion suggested that this format is currently not accessible. Apparently if you have a very old version of the Adobe Reader software -- maybe version 5 or earlier, then the DRM features disable accessibility. And once you update on a system, you can't revert. I might be able to find a very old original backup of my Tiger system that has this, but it isn't worth trying for me. > Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > >> >> it's native to the mac OS. And actually much better than acrobat >> reader. >> >> Best >> >>> Yuma is correct that Preview is the native, default application that Mac OS X uses to display and read PDF files, and that you have much more flexibility in reading, navigating, and finding content in documents because the interface with VoiceOver gives you many more interactive options for controlling your reading than the simple text- to-speech interface of Adobe Reader supplies. It's easier to learn, because it uses the same keystrokes as other Mac applications (e.g., the shortcuts Command-Right arrow and Command-Left arrow to move to next and previous pages and Command-Right bracket and Command-Left bracket to move forward and back just like web pages). You use the same control key to stop VoiceOver speaking, and you can navigate back with VO-arrow keys to repeat sentences and use VO-A to start reading again from that point. Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Esther, > > Does Preview come with the OS or is it a third party app? If the > latter, > how can it be obtained? Thanks. Les and other new VoiceOver users, there's another nice integration of Preview and PDF files in Mac OS X. The default print file format on the Mac is a PDF file, so you can print anything --- web pages, receipts for transactions, text documents, lists of tracks in selected playlists in iTunes -- simply by using Command-P. In the print menu window you can use the item chooser menu (VO-I) to navigate to the PDF Menu Button. Press it (VO-Space), and view options such as saving as a PDF file, viewing in Preview, saving into a Web Receipts folder, etc. If there's an article you want to send to someone who reads their email, but has only infrequent internet access or limited bandwidth, you can print out a web page and send it as a mail attachment. Or you can save a receipt of your purchase as a PDF file. It will show up in a Spotlight search if you later need to track down this item, or print it out formally for letter correspondence or to use as an email attachment. Simon Cavendish wrote: > I have just read your response on using Adobe Reader. I may have > said it before but I will say it again: it is so enormously helpful > to read through your thorough responses to our quieries. Thank you > for taking the time. I have been learning so much from them. Simon and others, you're very welcome. I've been using the archived lists to store information about VoiceOver that I write up in notes for myself. Happy to share this. Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
