Olearia in other languages

Hello everyone, Does anyone know what has happened to the localisation of the daisy player Olearia into other languages? It used to be localised into French and Norwegian. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To po

Re: accessible pdf readers

Hello Chad, There is a lovely little application from Convenienceware called GhostReader which can read most text-based formats and turn them into MP3 files. http://www.convenienceware.com/ Cheers, Anne On 2 Sep 2010, at 17:55, chad baker wrote: > Hi is there any accessible pdf readers? > A

Re: Trackpad tutorials for the blind, do they exist?

Hello Krister, I don't know of any tutorials on the use of the Trackpad, but to learn the Trackpad Commander gestures, just turn on Keyboard Help (VO-k_ and play with the trackpad. That way, you know you can't do any harm and you can find out what the gestures do. Cheers, Anne On 3 Sep 2010

Re: accessible pdf readers

Hello Paul, On 4 Sep 2010, at 10:52, Paul Erkens wrote: > > > I remember someone on this list explaining how you can have a document from > text edit being read aloud into an itunes track. Is this what ghost reader > does as well? Take a document, have it read aloud by a synthetic voice and >

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

Hello all, If you can get VoiceOver to speak the text you want to copy, just press VO-Shift-c (copy last spoken phrase to clipboard) and you can just do Command-v to paste it where you want. This is immensely useful when setting a shortcut for a menu command that doesn't already have one as it

Re: Can I search for new line and replace with a space and how can I do it.

Hello Annie, This should work in either TextEdit or Pages: • Find a New Line character: • Highlight it: • Copy it to the clipboard (Command-c); • Press Command-f to open a Find dialogue; • Paste the New Line character into the first field; • Enter a space in the Replace With field; • Navigate righ

Re: Help basics with Pages09

Hello Scott, In Pages, You have to select text before those greyed out buttons become available. You also need to set up the shortcuts for the various styles you're going to use before you can use them with VoiceOver. Cheers, Anne On 10 Sep 2010, at 19:33, Scott E. Ford wrote: > Hello Every

Re: opening something.

Hello Ian, In the Open With menu, at the bottom, you'll find Other…. If you press Return on Other, you'll be in a dialogue box where you can browse your Applications folder and select the one you want. Cheers, Anne On 11 Sep 2010, at 09:43, Ian McNamara wrote: > hi i have been trying to open

Re: Braille Sense and the Mac

Hello Chris, I've used a BrailleSense Plus 32 with my MacBook and it works with either USB or BlueTooth. Connected via BlueTooth, you can also exchange files between the two devices. I also created a set of preferences for the BrailleSense with most of the VO commands so that the Mac can be pi

Re: Sendero look around app is now available

Hello Dave, This app would appear only to work in North America. I made the mistake of purchasing it last night, as did someone in the UK, and for us Europeans it's useless. It has no maps for Europe. Cheers, Anne On 18 Sep 2010, at 01:16, Dave Taylor wrote: > Oh, does this have any advanta

Re: Sendero look around app is now available

Hello everyone, Please disregard my previous message. I had to reset the country from North America to Europe and now it's working. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvision

Re: Google search

What's this about an "accessible google page"? I just press Command-Option-f on whatever page I'm on in Safari and enter my search terms. I have absolutely no problem with VO crashing. To find the results, I press VO-Command-h three times and there I am. I use google day in and day out when I'm

Re: ABBYY OCR Software

Hello Scott, Abbyy FineReader does a great job from TIFF files. I scan books a double page at a time, using VueScan, and it gets everything in the right order. It can also handle more than one language within the same document. It occasionally has a fit and screws up a few words beyond all reco

Re: ABBYY OCR Software

Hello Andy, Some scanners work directly with ABBYY FineReader, but my two Canon scanners do not. This is why I use VueScan, something I've been doing for a number of years now and I'm too old to change my ways! I create a TIFF file with VueScan and set all TIFF files to open with ABBYY FineRea

Re: ABBYY OCR Software

Hello Justin, I'm pretty sure your scanner won't work directly with ABBYY FineReader. However, you can use Image Capture which is in your Applications folder, or purchase VueScan, which is what I use. Whichever method you choose, you open the resulting file with ABBYY FineReader where you sele

Re: help with reading text.

Hello Chris, You can read the current line with VO-l, current sentence with VO-s and current paragraph with VO-p. There are also commands for previous and next of all these. You can find all these commands by pressing VO-h twice and going to the Text menu. Cheers, Anne On 22 Sep 2010, at 23

Re: bad request: screenprotector iphone4 clasic from solona

Hello William, The GMail address you have is the best way of contacting Bernard Maldonado. There is no real company, just Bernard himself, so he should be able to sort out your problem. His Skype name is: bernardmaldonado He's on Skype at the moment so we've just alerted him to your problem.

Re: Getting applications out of the command-tab order?

Hello Justin, The feature you are looking for would be available if Spaces worked with VoiceOver. Other people have requested this facility, so why not write to Accessibility to ask for this? Cheers, Anne On 25 Sep 2010, at 01:49, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have done very well in

Re: How To Get VoiceOver To Automatically Read Messages in Apple Mail

The company that makes Heather is Acapela and Heather comes with all the voice packs from Infovox iVox which can be purchased from AssistiveWare: www.assistiveware.com The Cepstral voices still do not work properly with VO. The i devices can only use the voices preinstalled by Apple for VoiceOve

Re: vo randemly reading stuff in mail.

Hello Kevin, Mail says "One row added" or whatever for the mailbox that is currently active, whether Mail is the front app or not. Leave Mail in a mailbox that doesn't receive mail directly and this won't happen. Cheers, Anne On 27 Sep 2010, at 06:53, Kevin Reeves wrote: > Hey folks. One mor

Re: Alerts causes loss voice

Hello Shaun, For me, alerts seem only to stop VoiceOver from speaking when I use an Infovox iVox voice as my system voice. Could this be your problem? Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Alerts causes loss voice

Hello Claudio, If this happens often, you should report it to Apple: accessibil...@apple.com They really should know about it. Cheers, Anne On 28 Sep 2010, at 16:21, Claudio Haase wrote: > Hi Anne, I have this problem to. Even if I'am using the Alex voice. > > > On 9/28/1

Re: Prizmo

Hello Jürgen, Prizmo for Mac is sort of accessible but horrible to use. It does not take care of orientation which is its worst fault. Also, you have to read the Help tags for most of the buttons and you often have to bring the mouse and use VO-Shift-Space to click buttons. To select your scann

Re: Prizmo

Hello Jürgen, I've got the latest version of Prizmo. I had to delete the version that was on my MBA as it wouldn't work any more and download the latest version. I bought it quite a while back and, although it was usable then, it was messy. I still think it's messy compared with ABBYY FineReade

Re: Prizmo

ttings. Or do you know of a > full version? > > All the best > Jürgen > > Am 09.06.2013 um 19:15 schrieb Anne Robertson : > >> Hello Jürgen, >> >> I've got the latest version of Prizmo. I had to delete the version that was >> on my MBA as it woul

Re: So wait… What should one use for scanning?

Hello Brian, I can't speak about Docuscan, but ABBYY FineReader does an excellent job of scanning and OCR. There's also VueScan which can also do OCR. It isn't as good as FineReader, but you can use it for free if you don't mind the watermark it leaves on each image. You have to get VueScan fro

Re: So wait… What should one use for scanning?

il & iMessage. > skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl > > > > > > > > > > On 12/06/2013, at 1:23 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Brian, >> >> I can't speak about Docuscan, but ABBYY FineRead

Re: Major problems with my first Prizmo scan

Hello Alex, The unlabelled buttons all have help tags so you can identify them by pressing VO-Shift-h. I don't understand half those settings either and I'm not prepared to wast my time on it since it doesn't seem to handle double pages, which makes scanning books a pain in the fundament! Sor

Re: which OCR app does not support books again?

Hello Alex, When I scan books, I open the book out flat and place it face down in my scanner. That way, I get two pages at once and can just turn over the page and repeat. Prizmo does not recognise the text in this situation. At least, it doesn't for me. Perhaps it was the orientation, but ABBY

Re: Foreign HQ voice for iPhone?

Hello Jürgen, I'm afraid you can only have one HQ voice on the iPhone. I have the same problem as you do in that I run my iPhone in English but read a lot of French on it. I'd love to have an HQ French voice, and I can have one if I set my iPhone to French, but then I lose my HQ English voice.,

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

Hello Nick, I've been using the StandScan Pro for about three months now and would highly recommend it. My preferred OCR app for use with the StandScan Pro is TextGrabber + Translator which can handle three different languages at once and produces even better results than Prizmo. I use both T

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

Hello Kawal, There are two similar boxes to help with scanning using a smart phone. There's StandScan Pro and ScanBox. The StandScan Pro is shipped from Hongkong and the Scan Box comes from Australia. They both work on the same principle of providing ideal lighting and positioning with no diffi

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

Hello Nick, I find that Talking Goggles doesn't really work for me with the StandScan Pro, but it works great freehand in front of the kitchen window. It's in the kitchen that I use it most to identify things like jars of pâté or pachaged cold meats. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jun 2013, at 10:46, Ni

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

Michael, the app we're discussing here is for iPhone and other IOS devices, not for the Mac. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jun 2013, at 11:54, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey, > just wondering can this program do PDF files? if so can it batch convert? > thanks > > Michael -- You received this message

Re: ABBY Fine Reader Question

Hello Brian, You should be able to connect your scanner to your Mac, then launch ABBYY Finereader and your scanner should show up in the table of sources. Select your scanner then click the Convert to text button or whichever task you want. My Canon Lide 110 shows up twice in the table, once fo

Re: Bone conduction your phones with iPhone

Hello Gigi, I have Aftershokz headphones and love them, especially when out using GPS on my iPhone. They're really comfortable and work well. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jun 2013, at 20:30, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys > I bought BlindSquare for my iPhone yesterday. It recommends getting bone > c

Re: help with pages: line of text where on page and hwat page

Hello Anouk, VO-F3 should do what you want. Cheers, Anne On 17 Jun 2013, at 03:43, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello, > With microsoft word, with my braille display, i can see on the status bar > precisely what line of text i am working on in a page and at what page number > that is. Is there som

Re: how long should Prizmo take to scan?

Hello Alex, That seems ridiculously slow. I'm sure it was much quicker than that for me. However, I don't like Prizmo for the Mac anyway. Cheers, Anne On 16 Jun 2013, at 21:51, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying Prizmo again, now that I replaced my scanner with one that works. > Howev

Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

Hello Nick, Pages can create epub documents with a table of contents readable by iBooks. You'd need to copy the text from the PDFs into Pages then set all the headings to the correct levels. Pages can then create a table of contents and you can export the file to EPUB format. Cheers, Anne O

Re: making do with no vo keys to right of space bar

I've been using an Apple laptop for 9 years now and I can tell you that there never was a Control key on the right. There wasn't even an Option key on the right until 4 or 5 years ago. Where the Option key is now used to be an Enter key, not to be confused with a Return key. When I have to use

Re: Questions About Numbers

Hello Chris, You can select a column or row in Numbers by going to the first cell in that row or column and holding down the Shift key, use either the right arrow key for a row, or the down arrow key for a column. As for your Busy problem, are you by any chance running Windows as a virtual mac

Re: Questions About Numbers

en you consider > productivity. I used to use numbers all the time, and several times a day all > of the sudden I couldn't enter any data into the spread sheet. I would have > to quit numbers and restart. I have switched over to a database program as > numbers got so frustrat

Re: Mac Access List

Hello Brian, Try this link: Cheers, Anne On 20 Jun 2013, at 21:52, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > I saw a mention of something called the Mac Access List, a Google search > pulled up a ton of results that weren't it. Ca

Re: Questions About Numbers

ist for VoiceOver for this >>>> to be fixed. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Gigi >>>> >>>> On Jun 21, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks Ann, I will definitely try

Re: Questions About Numbers

Hello Maria, What problems are you having with creating tables in a document? I can create tables in Pages quite easily. I just insert a table using the Insert menu, then select the table which shows up as a highlighted space to VoiceOver and set it to Floating in the Wrap inspector. After that

Re: how to scan double sided pages with epson wp4535/finereader express

Hello Anouk, I don't think FineReader can do what you want, but VueScan can. In the Input tab of VueScan, you can set Autorepeat which should work for your scanner. If you set VueScan to produce TIFF files, then you can set all such files to always open with ABBYY FineReader. In any case, you

Re: how to scan double sided pages with epson wp4535/finereader express

Hello Jürgen, On 25 Jun 2013, at 08:04, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > > I used VueScan a while ago. It seems to me you use it regularly. Could you > tell me three things please: > 1. Is it still so that I have to save the scanned text as a file on the > harddrive before I can read it? Yes. I alway

Re: Nisus writer pro 2.4 for sale today.

Hello Nick, Is it possible to read the contents of tables in Nisus Writer Pro? Pages has a menu item "Convert table to text" which makes tables readable. So if Nisus Writer doesn't have something like this, then Pages is a much better option. Cheers, Anne On 25 Jun 2013, at 19:30, Nicholas P

Re: Nisus writer pro 2.4 for sale today.

Hello Maria, There's a review of the Pages course on applevis. Here's the link: We now use a combination of Skype and Team Viewer (my husband is sighted so can look at the student's screen that wa

Re: Nisus writer pro 2.4 for sale today.

Hello Annie, Thanks for the information. Nisus Writer Pro wouldn't work for me because sometimes, translations come in that are all tables in a Word document and I can manage them fine in Pages. I've never been a windows user and if you put me in front of a PC running Windows and JAWS I'd be c

Re: reading .docx documents on the mac?

Hello Anouk, Both Pages and TextEdit can read DOCX documents, what they can't do is save documents in that format. However, for straightforward reading, TextEdit is the best. Cheers, Anne On 26 Jun 2013, at 18:11, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi everyone, > I got some .docx documents that i need t

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

I have well over a hundred books from Kobo on my iPhone and on my Mac, and I'm rapidly increasing the size of my Kindle library. I don't buy very many iBooks as I'm in France, and the choice of English language books is limited. So my iBooks library is limited to books in French, apart from the

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

Kindle works very like iBooks on the iPhone. It even makes the same page-turning sound. I prefer Kobo on the iPhone as it reads straight through one chapter at a time without making that noise. And because it stops at the end of a chapter, I don't mind falling asleep listening since I know there

Re: Reading iBooks from the Mac?

Flicking the mute switch does stop the page-turning noise but it doesn't get rid of the pause. Cheers, Anne On 28 Jun 2013, at 07:44, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > HOw about just flicking the mute switch; does this work? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

Hello Christina, It isn't actually necessary to use VueScan with FineReader, but it makes scanning multiple pages much easier and quicker. You can scan multiple pages with ABBYY FineReader, but you have to perform several actions between pages whereas with VueScan, you can either set it to auto

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

ly as long as there is paper in the document feeder? It is > possible to do this in Windows, so it seems like it ought to be possible on > the Mac as well. > Best, > Donna > On Jun 29, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Christina, >> >> I

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

te: >> >>> Hi Anne, >>> >>> so I have a scanner with an automatic document feeder that holds approx 50 >>> pages. Is it not possible to start a scan in ABBYY and just have it scan >>> continuously as long as there is paper in the docume

Re: how to scan double sided pages with epson wp4535/finereader express

, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi Anne, How does this auto repeat work? Do i put in scanners and then hit > scan in vuescan and it completes the seem workflow every time? > Is it then possibl eto append all the files from the different jobs to one > tiff file? > Thanks! > Greetings, Anouk

Re: Using Pages to make a brochure?

Hello Alex, In Pages, you often need to bring the mouse and do a VO-Shift-Space to be able to edit. The mock Latin is placeholder text. In Pages, you have to navigate with the arrow keys alone and never, never use Quick Nav. When you land on placeholder text, it should become highlighted andd

Re: Using Pages to make a brochure?

ot; things are. I get textboxes, but this shape thing I'm > not sure of. The vo commands for speaking size and position are proving very > helpful in visualizing the layout of the template. Do you happen to know how > to move or resize items though? > On Jul 4, 2013, at 3:42

Re: need a skype help on using mac

Hello Ramy, There is a tutorial built into the Mac. Press Control-Option-Command-F8 and it will start walking you through the basics of how to use your Mac with VoiceOver. Good luck! Anne On 6 Jul 2013, at 22:12, ramy moustafa wrote: > Hi all: > i got a mac mini computer with track pad, and

Re: a piculiar problem getting Vue Scan to sequence file names

Hello Ray, The filename should not have .tiff at the end of it. Try removing that and see what happens. Cheers, Anne On 6 Jul 2013, at 05:14, Ray Foret jr wrote: > Okay, > > Following the instructions for setting up Vue Scan, I have the file naming > set up so that the first scan is save

Re: a piculiar problem getting Vue Scan to sequence file names

> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On Jul 6, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Ray, >> >> The filename should not have .tiff at the end of it. Try removing that and >> see what happens. >> >> Cheers, >&g

Re: a piculiar problem getting Vue Scan to sequence file names

checked for sure. > > > Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On Jul 7, 2013, at 2:20 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >

Re: How can I read a table in a .doc file?

Hello Shaf, In Pages, the table will just show up as a highlighted space. If you can locate it, you can either go to the Format menu and down to the Table submenu where you select Convert table to text, or you can select the table, open the Inspector (Cmd-Option-i, select the Wrap inspector and

Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hello Ed, The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator It works even outside the UK. Cheers, Anne On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac? > > Ed > O

Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

ow if I need to change any settings to get it to find iPlayer radio > shows? None seem to come up when I do a search. > > Cheers, > > Ed > On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:42, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Ed, >> >> The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator >&

Re: How can I read a table in a .doc file?

ing of tables as > floating so we could see them. There is certainly a AppleScript to select > tables as objects. Generally I do not actively use pager gut I would be glad > to try and your described procedure. > Brat wishes, > Jonathan > > Sent from my iPhone > >

Re: mail on macbook pro

Hello Janine, I think the reading of the message that just arrived is happening in the Notification Centre and not in Mail. Go into System Preferences which is both in the Dock and in the Apple menu and select Notification Centre. You can then move Mail out of the list of applications that use

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

Hello Ed, Many of us use a combination of VueScan and ABBYY FineReader because it's easier to scan multiple pages with VueScan then pass the file containing multiple images to FineReader for the OCR. ABBYY FineReader is available in the Appstore and will work directly with a scanner, but VueSca

Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

oad something: > GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD programme. > > Another related question: I tried to find mor of "Who do you think you were" > but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for this > series? > > Thanks again a

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

I'll give the English VueScan OCR a try. Cheers, Anne On 11 Jul 2013, at 23:02, Edward Green wrote: > Hi Anne, > > Is it possible to perform the OCR using vuescan or do you also need Fine > Reader? > > Thanks, > > Ed > On 11 Jul 2013, at 21:51, Anne Robertson

Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

issue concerning the download problem I >> wrote? >> >> Thanks and >> all the best >> Jürgen >> >> Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson : >> >>> Hello Jürgen, >>> >>> I'm afraid it only works consistently for

Re: Character size in Keynote

Hello Daniela, Have you tried selecting the text and doing Cmd-+ to make the characters bigger? Cheers, Anne On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:42, Daniela Rubio wrote: > Hello all: > I just wanted to know how can I get a good size of characters in Keynote, so > the slide is correct visually speaking. H

Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

family roots. I liked the > episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some of the > episodes in You Tube. > > But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I wrote? > > Thanks and > all the best > Jürgen > > Am 11.07.

Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hello Kawal, Here's the link for this app: <https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator> Cheers, Anne On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:52, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Wonderful. > > How can we get this App or Program? > > Kawal. > > On 12 Jul 2013, at

Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

GIA. ;-) > > All the best > Jürgen > > Am 12.07.2013 um 10:47 schrieb Anne Robertson : > >> Hello Jürgen, >> >> I looked for "Who do you think you are" as well, but no episodes were >> available. I think they're only available for a week af

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

Hello Annie, I tested Prizmo for Mac quite recently and the OCR results were dreadful! I don't know what your problem is with ABBYY FineReader for Mac as it produces really good results for me in both English and French. Although I must admit, the results are less good when I use FineReader to

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

Hello Annie, When you say that ABBYY FineReader doesn't handle double-sided pages, do you mean that it mixes up the order? I scan the left and right sides at the same time, and it always gets them right. However, I don't use FineReader to do the scanning, I use the paid version of VueScan which

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

Hello, Here are two examples of OCR. They are both done from the same scanned image. The first was scanned By VueScan which then did the OCR. The second used the same scan, but it was processed by ABBYY FineReader. Notice that VueScan has treated the double page as just one page thereby produc

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

> double pages as the pro version do. > > I also have the paid version of vuescan. How can you see if vuescan has the > correct serial number and activation code installed. > > Cheers Annie. > Den Jul 12, 2013 kl. 8:45 PM skrev Anne Robertson : > >> Hello Annie, &

Re: how to best run macbook air

Hello Phil and Anouk, I think running the MBA on mains power for 80% of the time is probably about ideal. All Apple products have circuitry that prevents overcharging the battery, and in my pretty long experience of Apple laptops, about 15 years, the ones that are used mostly on mains power hav

Re: Time and date

Hello Jürgen, To make Date & Time speak correctly in German you need to replace the script. I'm no expert in Applescript so can't help with this. Cheers, Anne On 20 Jul 2013, at 22:31, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi, > does anyone know how to change the way VO speaks the date and time in the >

Re: Pages Help with Show Statistics

Hello Brian, You open the inspector with Cmd-Option-i and the one you want is Document which is the first one. You then want the Info tab. All the stats are there. Cheers, Anne On 20 Jul 2013, at 22:36, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Quite a frustrating problem, as this keeps happe

Re: Using the say command

Hello Gena, Why not use the Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track command? It's by far the simplest way to do it. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2013, at 17:45, Georgina Joyce wrote: > Hello Alex, > > I'm confused, I asked about using the say command as I want to pass a text > document to be converted i

Re: GPS app suggestion

Hello Shen, Navigon Europe will work fine in Italy. It has the advantage of having the maps installed on the phone so you won't incur data charges. Cheers, Anne On 28 Jul 2013, at 03:25, Shen wrote: > Hi everyone, > My wife and I are going to Italy in September for our vacation. > What GP

Re: keynote or powerpoint?

Hello Jean, KeyNote is your only option as PowerPoint is totally inaccessible. KeyNote is quirky but manageable. Cheers, Anne On 19 Aug 2013, at 07:03, jean parker wrote: > All: > So the question is which is easier to use and the most accessible, keynote or > powerpoint for Mac? > All expe

Re: ABBYY fine reader updates

Hello Phil, Don't worry about updates. You'll be notified about them from the Mac Appstore and there's no uninstalling to be done. The confusion comes because ABBYY FineReader for Mac was available before the Appstore existed and some of us bought it then, so we have to get our updates from the

Re: ABBYY fine reader updates

te. > > Sent from my IPhone > > > On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Phil, >> >> Don't worry about updates. You'll be notified about them from the Mac >> Appstore and there's no uninstalling to be done. The con

Re: Users in different system languages?

Hello Daniela, Yes, you can create another user with the system in a different language. Just add a new user, then open a session for that user and change the system language in System Preferences. Cheers, Anne On 22 Aug 2013, at 08:31, Daniela Rubio wrote: > Hello: > Hello: > Is there a w

Re: reinstalling os x mountain lion on macbook air

Hello Anouk, I always create a bootable USB key just in case I need to reinstall my system. Cheers, Anne On 26 Aug 2013, at 21:14, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I recently got the new macbook air. The last one i owned i sold and > reinstalled in march 2012 (it had mountain lion on

Re: Creating Lists in Pages

Hello Timothy, Sorry for the delay in answering your question. There are two ways of creating lists in Pages, and your way is one of them. There's no need to type in the numbering. Just type your list with each item followed by Return, then select the whole list and go to the Text inspector. S

Re: setting line spacing in a document in Pages?

Hello Donna, You do indeed use the Inspector to set line spacing. Select the Text inspector and the Text tab. By default, Line is set to 1. You'll find this field if you go down once from Line, then once to the right. Cheers, Anne On 6 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: text graber update

Hello Jean, I've done the update and it's still perfectly accessible. Cheers, Anne On 6 Sep 2013, at 21:59, jean parker wrote: > Hello All: > > I see in the app store that text grabber has been up-dated. Among the things > listed in the what's new section is that they have redone their wh

Re: VoiceOver Resources & Tutorials 4 Beginners

Hello Robin, There are lots of podcasts on applevis that you might find helpful. I believe you asked about an APA template for Pages on the iPhone. I can send you an APA template for Pages on the Mac if you like. Along with my husband, I give a Pages course via Skype. I'm afraid it isn't free,

Re: I will go stark raving mad if VO Doesn't Stop with the (enter application name here) busy garbage

A few tips. Make sure you close all windows in applications before quitting. Make sure you quit applications rather than just closing all windows. Repair permissions regularly. Reinitialise the PRAM from time to time. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: I will go stark raving mad if VO Doesn't Stop with the (enter application name here) busy garbage

Hello Christine, To repair permissions: • Open the Utilities folder (Cmd-Shift-u) and locate Disk Utility; • Open Disk utility and select your hard drive in the table (normally it will be the second item); • Navigate right to First Aid and select it; • Navigate down to Repair Disk Permissions and

Re: Word processor

Hello David, Pages works just fine on the Mac. I use it all the time. Of course it's a complex application, it's a professional word-processing and publishing application. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To u

Re: Word processor

Hello David, Headers and Footers in Pages are fields that appear on every printed page and should not be confused with headings or footnotes. Headings, subheadings, etc are configured in the Styles drawer and you can set up to 8 hotkeys for these. When you save a template, the configured hotke

Re: Word processor

Hello David, First of all, when you open a Pages document, go to the View menu and hide everything you can. Also, never use Quick Nav in Pages. Once you have some text in your document, press Cmd-Shift-t to show the styles drawer. Stop interacting with everything and navigate left past the Tool

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