Hi. Text edit has always read PDF files for me.
Kawal. On 24 Apr 2011, at 02:58, carolyn Haas wrote: > 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.
