Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

I don't know. It is intended for reading science journal pdf pages which often have info in table format. The ability to grab the text and put it elsewhere is a bonus feature. It's free, get it and try it on a pdf known to have the formats of interest to you. On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Mary Ott

RE: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

: Thursday, 5 October 2017 9:12 AM To: mac mailing list Subject: Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac? Hi all: Is there an app to open the PDF files on mac? when i open any pdf, i get the preview . is this an app? On Oct 4, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Mary Otten mailto:motte...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

If you don't want to make it and text file, thereby losing formatting I assume, does this app deal with tables and voiceover, such that you can do rows and columns in a table mode? If not, bummer. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:44 PM, -dan d. wrote: > > > In place of previ

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

In place of preview I use skim which is a free open source pdf reading app. It is being actively developed and updated. It is smaller in size and faster and does a better pdf presentation in my experience then does preview. Once the pdf file is loaded into it; one can use the cmd-a and cmd-

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi, Anders, Yes, Robobraille was definitely the site whose name I was trying to recall. The site has been around for seven or eight years now, and at least back in 2010, it was very good. Thanks so much for that piece of information! Take care, Mike > On 4 Oct 2017, at 21:13, Anders Holmber

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello Anne, No, I didn’t try that, but I will. Thank you very much, Mike > On 4 Oct 2017, at 19:38, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Mike, > > Have you tried just selecting all the text in the PDF document with Cmd-a and > pasting it into a TextEdit document? You can do this with just two s

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi, Preview is the stock app on a Mac for reading pdf documents. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 4, 2017, at 14:11, Ramy Moustafa wrote: Hi all: Is there an app to open the PDF files on mac? when i open any pdf, i get the preview . is this an app? > On Oct 4, 2017, at 9

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi all: Is there an app to open the PDF files on mac? when i open any pdf, i get the preview . is this an app? > On Oct 4, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > If a PDF file has tables, is that formatting retain in Robo braille if you > convert to say RTF? Or word? > Mary > > > Sent from

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

If a PDF file has tables, is that formatting retain in Robo braille if you convert to say RTF? Or word? Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 4, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Christine Grassman > wrote: > > Quite often, if one goes into the file menu, there is a “save as other” > option. This allows you t

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi! Robobraille.org is quite self-instructive. I think you can send a mail also attaching the pdf to conv...@robobraille.org and in the subject-line type rtf or whatever format you want it converted to. /A > 4 okt. 2017 kl. 18:28 skrev Michael Busboom : > > Hello, Mary, > > No, I haven’t upgrad

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello Mike, Have you tried just selecting all the text in the PDF document with Cmd-a and pasting it into a TextEdit document? You can do this with just two shortcuts if you’ve activated the service New TextEdit window containing selection. Cheers, Anne > On 4 Oct 2017, at 18:28, Michael Bu

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Quite often, if one goes into the file menu, there is a “save as other” option. This allows you to save the pdf as a Word file, rtf file, plain text, etc. If the particular file does not have this option, you can send the file as an attachment to conv...@robobraille.org

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello, There is a way of converting a .pdf file to a text file via an Apple Script. When you have a .pdf file you simply VO+Shift+M and select convert to text and the text file appears where you selected it to be placed when setting up the script. I can’t find the details immediately and I have

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello, Mary, No, I haven’t upgraded to High Siera yet. One reason I need PDFs in a different format is that I want to read them on braille displays that don’t interface all that well with the Mac. There used to be web-based services that would convert your PDFs to RTF or TXT files and e-mail t

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi Mike, I can't answer your question about the services, although I will be following this thread with interest. I'm curious if you have upgraded to high Sierra and still find a PDF reading to be as bad as ever. Or have you found improvement? Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 4, 2017, at 8:54

Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello everyone, Although I can read many PDFs on the Mac, I find the process sometimes „clunky.“ I know that there are services out there that allow you to send them a PDF file and they will email an RTF version back to you. My problem is that I haven’t used any of these services in years, and

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>>>>> www.appletothecore.info >> >>>>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> I have now tried two pdf files with the mac's default pdf reader, and it >>>>>> was p

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; Hi all, > >>>> I have now tried two pdf files with the mac's default pdf reader, and it > >>>> was painful. Vo couldn't properly interact with the text (I had no arrow > >>>> key reading), and vo-a reads as though words are cut at random places or &g

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now tried two pdf files with the mac's default pdf reader, and it >>>> was painful. Vo couldn't properly interact with the text (I had no arrow >>>> key reading), and vo-a reads as though words are cut at random places or >>>> skipped entirely. I was hop

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t;>> Hi all, >>> I have now tried two pdf files with the mac's default pdf reader, and it >>> was painful. Vo couldn't properly interact with the text (I had no arrow >>> key reading), and vo-a reads as though words are cut at random places or >>

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he text (I had no arrow key >> reading), and vo-a reads as though words are cut at random places or skipped >> entirely. I was hoping textedit could help, but no luck. What app do people >> prefer for easily and fully reading pdfs on the mac? I'd rather a free >> so

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ldn't properly interact with the text (I had no arrow key > reading), and vo-a reads as though words are cut at random places or skipped > entirely. I was hoping textedit could help, but no luck. What app do people > prefer for easily and fully reading pdfs on the mac? I'd ra

reading PDFs?

ut no luck. What app do people prefer for easily and fully reading pdfs on the mac? I'd rather a free solution if at all possible. Thanks. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- You received this message because you are subscribe

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Subject: Re: Reading PDFs? Yes. You can read easily line or word. I've done it with chrome and safari. Sent from my iPhone On 22 Feb 2012, at 04:08, "Bejarano, Rafael P." wrote: > So, you are saying that using a web browser is better for reading pdf files > than using Preview

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> > Rafael Bejarano > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Kirsten Edmondson [kirsten.edmond...@btinternet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:00 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > S

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: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:00 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading PDFs? I have started selecting the file I want from the folder by interacting with the table and putting the cursor on the file and then uninteracting. I then go VO+m and into open with. This brings up a

Re: Reading PDFs?

I have started selecting the file I want from the folder by interacting with the table and putting the cursor on the file and then uninteracting. I then go VO+m and into open with. This brings up a list of programs, I think the first one is preview and that's selected, you want to select somethi

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on Manzino [gwennac...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:18 AM To: Mac Visionaries Subject: reading PDFs Hi all, THe only way I can read PDFs is to press control option and colon which locks the VO keys. This way you can just use down arrow to read the document or just press A for all.

reading PDFs

Hi all, THe only way I can read PDFs is to press control option and colon which locks the VO keys. This way you can just use down arrow to read the document or just press A for all. I believe you can also interact with the toolbar and go page by page. But it's not intuitive. I hope this helps.

Reading PDFs?

Hi. Are there any tricks to reading PDF's with OS Lion? I wasn't able to review anything, I could just let preview read the entire document. I could go word by word with the track pad,but that is not a very pleasurable way to go through a long document you need to read slowly. Figured there mu

RE: reading pdfs question

@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: reading pdfs question I did try doing that as my first option as I thought that would be the easiest and quickest way of reading in an accessible way, but it wouldn't select and thus copy etc. On 29 Dec 2011, at 03:03, Marcia Yale wrote: > I don't like

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On Behalf Of Kirsten Edmondson > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:53 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: reading pdfs question > > Hi, > Is there an easy way to read PDFs on my Mac? I use the preview thing it > tries to open them in but I can only read small

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s.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Edmondson Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:53 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: reading pdfs question Hi, Is there an easy way to read PDFs on my Mac? I use the preview thing it tries to open them in but I can only read

reading pdfs question

Hi, Is there an easy way to read PDFs on my Mac? I use the preview thing it tries to open them in but I can only read small sections and it seems to want to read them all in one go. I used to use fine reader and make them into word docs (on windows machines) so I will prob buy that soon for the

Re: reading pdfs in preview

Hi Anouk, play with the view options. Here you can adjust single pages. Find out what works for you. All the best Jürgen Am 12.09.2011 um 13:46 schrieb Anouk Radix: > Hi everyone, I just tried reading a pdf in preview but had little success. I > can copy the whole document and past it in pages

reading pdfs in preview

Hi everyone, I just tried reading a pdf in preview but had little success. I can copy the whole document and past it in pages to read but i was wondering if its possible to read a multipage document in preview or if I can only copy the whole text? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this

Re: Old news? -iBooks reading PDFs properly now!…

Hi All; >>>> >>>> First off, I hope all of your new year's celebrations were safe fun and >>>> totally freaking amazingly cool! woohoo! HOpe 2011 is treating ya'll >>>> wonderfully well so far!… :) >>>> >>>> Okay,

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inn wrote: >> >>> Hi All; >>> >>> First off, I hope all of your new year's celebrations were safe fun and >>> totally freaking amazingly cool! woohoo! HOpe 2011 is treating ya'll >>> wonderfully well so far!… :) >>> >>&g

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lly freaking amazingly cool! woohoo! HOpe 2011 is treating ya'll >> wonderfully well so far!… :) >> >> Okay, so this may be old news, but the current version of iBooks is now >> reading PDFs properly! I.E. if you do a two finger flick down, the PDF will >> r

Re: Old news? -iBooks reading PDFs properly now!…

ng amazingly cool! woohoo! HOpe 2011 is treating ya'll > wonderfully well so far!… :) > > Okay, so this may be old news, but the current version of iBooks is now > reading PDFs properly! I.E. if you do a two finger flick down, the PDF will > read straight through, as with any epub

Re: Old news? -iBooks reading PDFs properly now!…

Hello, Can the pdf be read by touch now? What I mean is can I now read a line or group of lines by touching that section or does it only read from the beginning all the way to the end as a whole document? Thanks so much, Christina -- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: Old news? -iBooks reading PDFs properly now!…

this may be old news, but the current version of iBooks is now > reading PDFs properly! I.E. if you do a two finger flick down, the PDF will > read straight through, as with any epub. > > -Just thought y'all would like to know… > > Enjoy! > > Cara :) > --- >

Old news? -iBooks reading PDFs properly now! …

Hi All; First off, I hope all of your new year's celebrations were safe fun and totally freaking amazingly cool! woohoo! HOpe 2011 is treating ya'll wonderfully well so far!… :) Okay, so this may be old news, but the current version of iBooks is now reading PDFs properly! I.E. if yo