Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-25 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey all. Sorry it took this long for me to reply. Tony, you don't necessarily need to bookmark where you are in preview if you set the view to single-page mode. To do this, in Preview, open the PDF you wish to read, then go into the menu bar with VO+M, go to view, and the first thing you see is

Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-24 Thread Tony Hernandez
Hi Esther. Once again you've come to the rescue. I can indeed view the very same book in iBooks as you said. Also, concerning preview, I was going about trying to read a character at a time the wrong way. I was trying to set the rotor to character and then using the down arrow key with quicknav

Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
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

RE: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-24 Thread Tony Hernandez
isionaries@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

Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Esther, this is such a helpful description, thank you. I also wonder wehther when reading in iBooks, one can read line by line? I don't ever see that option in the rotor on the iPad. Also, when reading pdf versions of "take control books" if I pause reading with double finger tap, and then swit

Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-23 Thread Esther
Hi Tony, I'm sorry to hear you're having a difficult time reading the Objective C book on your Mac. I went back to look at the Objective C book in PDF format that you referenced, and this is readable in Preview provided that you remember to interact with the material. I can get this to work

Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-23 Thread carolyn Haas
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.

extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-23 Thread Tony Hernandez
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