Thanks, Does that (PDF to txt) produce a file that you can interact with and navigate -- reading by line, by sentence etc?
Fred On 9/11/2012, at 10:54 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > It doesn't work well for me either. I invested in pdf to txt from the mac app > store and it works quite well enough. It's certainly fast. A few seconds and > 14 books were converted well enough to read. > > Danny: > > On 09/11/2012, at 7:10 PM, Chris <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You know what, I never got VoiceOver to work properly in Preview. I open a >> document and nothing in terms of navigation. Perhaps it's just the way I'm >> used to things, but any ideas would be very welcome indeed! >> >> >> Christopher Hallsworth >> >> On 09/11/2012 07:33, Fred Smith wrote: >>> Does anyone have an answer for the problem I encounter when trying to read >>> PDF files with Preview? As VoiceOver reads the PDF, it cuts off the first >>> letter of each sentence, and adds the first letter of the next sentence. >>> >>> For example, if the PDF says: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. >>> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." It reads as: "he quick brown >>> fox jumps over the lazy dog. T" This happens when I use the read all >>> command (VO-A), and when I try reading by sentence (VO-S). Is this just the >>> way things are with Preview, or is there a way of fixing the problem? >>> >>> So far, the best tool I've found for reading PDFs is VisioVoice, but I'd >>> really like to use Preview if possible. >>> >>> I'm using a Macbook Air, with Lion (10.7.5). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Fred Smith >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> <--- 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! >>> >>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>> the list website at: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >>> >> <--- 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! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- 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! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- 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! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
