Hi Carolyn and Esther. I have the Pages program. It won't open PDFs. After trying to get one open in Pages recently, I wrote to the list and asked about it. Ishe said Pages can only export to PDF.
Thank you Esther for that reminder. I do interact with the text in preview. Reading by line works until I want to start examining a line one character at a time. Then It starts reading way at the top of the document, which Simon rightly dubbed a nuisance. I'll try again with PDFs that are not available on iBookas epub files, but I will go with the iPod for reading the epubs. It would be a lot better than having 2 laptops eradiating my mid section at the same time and far less unwieldy. Again, thank you all for your patience and willingness to help and for taking the time to post such detailed messages. Tony Hernandez http://dutyofman.net/ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14) -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of carolyn Haas Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:59 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files Hi Tony: People have done well with getting preview to do this. I haven't ever done well with pdf documents. However, the Pages program will also work with pdf. And you can buy just that app from the mac store, which you'll find in your Apple menu, (vo-shift-M and vo-arrow down to mac store. HTH Carolyn On Apr 23, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Tony Hernandez wrote: > Hi all. > > I've ben trying all day to get various programs to work well reading PDFs on the Mac and have gotten no where fast. The programs I've tried are Adobe reader 10, Stanza, Skim, Preview, Safari, and Text Edit. These each have bugs that either make the document unreadable or difficult to read, or get hung up. Skim completely freezes when I reach the end of a page and forces me to close it out, which is unacceptable. Stanza does weird things with the spacing and makes the information incomprehensible. Safari doesn't let me interact with the text properly and insists on taking me to the very first page no matter what part of the file is visible when I try to interact with the text. Adobe is completely inaccessible. Text Edit just renders the file as garbage characters. Preview doesn't track my location properly when I read by line, so if I have to start reading by character, I'm completely lost there too. I don't wish to pay for a pdf to text converter because I don't have fond memories of such converters and I don't want to view the information as text. Is there a program out there for the Mac that reads PDF files, doesn't hang up or have quirky and distracting problems tracking the cursor, etc.? So far my experience with viewing pdf files on the Mac has been unhappy and worthy of 1 star. It's quite discouraging. I really, really don't want to have to read all my Objective C stuff on Windows machines. I'm at my wit's end with this and quite disappointed so far. > > Tony Hernandez > > -- > 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. > -- 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. -- 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.
