It has with these books. Some stuff, table of contence in columns etc isn't perfect but that's nothing new no matter what we read and what we read it with. <g>
It's just a standard text file now and I can do my search, standard navigation etc. What I can be sure of is that some pdf's will convert far better than others and some not at all. That's simply the nature of the horrible PDF beast no matter how you convert and on what platform you do it on. Danny: On 09/11/2012, at 9:36 PM, Fred Smith <snuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/> <--- 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/>. 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