Hi Kevin, To add to the summary Travis gave, you might want to check out Skim. Skim is an open source program that has been described as "Preview on steroids". Here's the description on Macupdate: <begin quote> Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
Features: Viewing PDFs Adding and editing notes Highlighting important text, including one-swipe highlight modes Making "snapshots" for easy reference Navigation using table of contents or thumbnails, with visual history View all your notes and highlights Convenient reading in full screen Giving powerful presentations, with built-in transitions Handy preview of internal links Focus using a reading bar Magnification tool Smart cropping tools Extensive AppleScript support Bookmarks Saving passwords in Keychain Export notes as text Automatic download of remote PDFs Support for Apple Remote Control Interaction with LaTeX, SyncTeX, and PDFSync Integration with BibDesk and other third party applications Spotlight support Highly customizable And much more... <end quote> In practice, useful features of this app that have been discussed on this list at earlier times include: (1) using it to present PDF format version of PowerPoint or Keynote presentations -- you can set the View options to "Presentation" either from the Menu bar or via shortcut (Command-Option-p), and you can set up the transition options, again from the Menu bar Presentation Options or via shortcut (Command-Option-t) and (2) using it to make annotations, that can be separately printed out. The most complete description of its operation was in a discussion on this list before archiving was set up. However, I excerpted that post in a reply to Dónal about Skim on the Macvisionaries list, so its possible to find that old post's contents in the Mail Archive. It's feature rich, so that you may not need all the functionality (for example, manipulating images includes some options that are only usable with vision), and it is similar to Preview in layout, but adds a second side-bar for the annotation features. Item 1) is useful for some conferences where they request that the presentation be exported into PDF format, which gets out of the problems caused by possible font incompatibility in the various versions of PowerPoint, or in Keynote. Also, in earlier versions of Skim, I would find some functions (such as using "Find" to search) more stable for VoiceOver than in Preview. There is also Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Professional which can be used with PDFs -- but these are really clunky to use with VoiceOver, so you'd only do this if you had a protected PDF file that could not be read in any other way. Then, as you mention, there is Adobe Digital Editions Preview that will read ePubs and PDFs with ADE DRM protection on your Desktop, but currently only in English. And there is OverDrive on iOS devices. These both require you to authorize your device or computer with Adobe. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 9, 2011, at 08:31, Travis Siegel wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Kevin Chao wrote: > >> I'm not aware of any other PDF reader, other than Preview and Digital >> Editions. Travis and others, I'm very curious to know what else is out >> there and works with VoiceOver on OS X Lion to read PDF's? > I don't know about Lion specifically, but there are a number of other pdf > readers. > softcon pdf viewer (http://mac.softcon.com/softconpdfviewer.dmg) > This was written for tiger, because the tiger pdf viewer couldn't do a > continuous page view, I.E. tell vo to read continuously, and have it do so > w/o having to change pages at the end of each one, so the softcon pdf viewer > was released to allow this capability. However, it hasn't been updated > since, so no clue if it will work on lion or not. > > > Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/) > It not only works on later versions of osx (including leopard), but is fully > vo accessible. It also comes with source (if you so desire) so that you can > see how it works, and change it if you see fit). > Adobe reader can be had at: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ > > I've not used it, but I hear it's not as accessible as preview, but > supposedly handles pdfs preview doesn't, though I've never run across a pdf > preview didn't handle that wasn't an image of real pages, so in my personal > opinion, this one isn't necessary, but there it is for those who want to try > it. > > Pdf clerk is in the app store, you can find a version for download at: > http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27168/pdfclerk-pro > You can hit the developer's site at: http://sintraworks.com/ > I have no idea if this app is accessible or not, so someone else will need to > try this one. > Then there's pdfpen which has both a regular and a pro version. It can edit > pdf files as well as read them. It's not very accessible, but your mileage > may vary. > You can find a version of pdfpen at: > http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/13829/pdfpen > > There's more, but some are pre tiger, and others are definitely not > accessible, but if you really need them, a quick search on google should turn > up a few more with minimal effort. > hth. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! 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