Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-03 Thread dan d.
Accorrding to wiki it can be read by adobe8 or later. It might then also allow saving in another format. Or using cmd-a and cmd-c it will be copied to the pasteboard and made a text file from there. On Sun, 2 May 2021, Lorie McCloud wrote: > do you know what a prc document is? I have an eboo

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-02 Thread Lorie McCloud
it's a book I bought. at the time they didn't have pdf available. > On May 2, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Hi to you both, > Lorie, > May i ask where the file came from? > One possible test, as Jonathan suggests might be this. > save the file with a .zip extension, put it in a fol

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi to you both, Lorie, May i ask where the file came from? One possible test, as Jonathan suggests might be this. save the file with a .zip extension, put it in a folder, and unzip the contents. perhaps? you may find .xml or .html files there, which can be read using a number of tools. There

RE: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-02 Thread skipper8218
I believe PRC format is part of Amazon Kindle. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Lorie McCloud Sent: Sunday, May 2, 2021 3:54 PM To: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries Subject: Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover do you know what a prc docu

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
Granted, some files might prevent it, but indeed it works great for that. On Sun, 2 May 2021, Lorie McCloud wrote: ok. thanks. I need to convert epub to something else txt or rtf and that's what I was asking about but I guess I didn't make myself clear. sounds like this site should work for

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-02 Thread Lorie McCloud
do you know what a prc document is? I have an ebook in that format and I don't know what to do with it. thanks. Lorie > On May 2, 2021, at 12:56 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > It is my understanding that a pub is essentially just a set of HTML / CSS > documents that have been encapsulated as a

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-02 Thread Lorie McCloud
ok. thanks. I need to convert epub to something else txt or rtf and that's what I was asking about but I guess I didn't make myself clear. sounds like this site should work for that. > On May 1, 2021, at 10:14 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I have never needed to convert a pdf file to epub.. g

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-02 Thread Jonathan Cohn
It is my understanding that a pub is essentially just a set of HTML / CSS documents that have been encapsulated as a zip file with an pub extension. Except for those cases where the pub is protected, you should be able to rename the file by replace pub with zip and then uncompressing it. Unlike

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
I have never needed to convert a pdf file to epub.. given you can convert things to mobi, that may be possible. I have, often, converted epub to other formats, rtf for example. The site is quite detailed as to what can be done, and their support folks are first rate. Karen On Sat, 1 May 202

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-05-01 Thread Lorie McCloud
Are you saying that robobraille will convert a pdf to epub or that you can convert epub to other formats too? thanks. Lorie > On Apr 30, 2021, at 12:50 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Hi Helga, > While I cannot suggest a specific pdf reader for the mac that lets you > read..why does preview n

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-04-30 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Helga, While I cannot suggest a specific pdf reader for the mac that lets you read..why does preview not do this?, I can suggest a way to convert the pdf files into other formats. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Allows you to convert pdf files into several alternatives, some epub file

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-04-30 Thread Herbie Allen
I don’t think it will let you edit, but try using Chrome as your PDF reader. It should let you let you select text and all that. > On Apr 30, 2021, at 02:53, Helga Schreiber > wrote: > > Hi everyone. Hope you guys are doing well. Can you guys recommend me a good > PDF reader app for the Mac

Re: PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-04-30 Thread John Panarese
The only one I was aware of was PDF Pen Pro, but I don’t know jsut how accessible it is at this point and it is not inexpensive. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SU

PDF reader for the Mac accessible with voiceover

2021-04-30 Thread Helga Schreiber
Hi everyone. Hope you guys are doing well. Can you guys recommend me a good PDF reader app for the Mac that is accessible with VoiceOver, which will allow me to read PDF documents and edit text within the documents? Just wondering. I would like to read line by line, word by word, sentence