That's generally true with screen-readers. I have a sighted friend who uses Adobe acrobat to edit pdf files, but editing pdf with screen-readers has always been minimal in my experience. Even reading them is somewhat problematic.
Teresa “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On Apr 4, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > I've always thought of PDF as a consumption format rather than an editable > document. Sort of like an mp3. You create an audio file in something with > multiple tracks that you edit and such and when you're done you export to an > mp3. Likewise you edit your document in Pages or the like and when you're > done you can export to PDF. Once exported it's really hard to make any > additional changes. > > CB > > On 4/2/14 8:23 AM, Josh Gregory wrote: >> Yes that's correct. However, oddly enough, pages cannot open PDF files, only >> export to them. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 2, 2014, at 8:20 AM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Well I see you're right. You can only export files to word, PDF, epub, >>> Pages 09, and text. >>> I do know that textedit can do RTF. >>> >>> Matt Dierckens >>> Macintosh Trainer >>> Blind Access Training >>> www.blindaccesstraining.com >>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Apr 2, 2014, at 8:12 AM, Josh Gregory <joshkar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Weird, there was one format I know it said it couldn't support and I'm >>>> pretty sure it was RTF. Maybe I was wrong. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Apr 2, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Textedit will support RTF and so will pages. With pages you just can't >>>>> write in RTF. >>>>> >>>>> Matt Dierckens >>>>> Macintosh Trainer >>>>> Blind Access Training >>>>> www.blindaccesstraining.com >>>>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 2, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Josh Gregory <joshkar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The one thing I don't like about it is that it does not support Rich >>>>>> text format files, this may seem a little picky but I think that a word >>>>>> processor such as pages should at least be able to support what I think >>>>>> is a pretty basic file format. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Apr 2, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all. I have pages now, and I do like it. I kinda wish VO would >>>>>>> announce a heading as a heading and not just as bold 18 pt, unless, >>>>>>> that's all a heading is. >>>>>>>> On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Chris Apple boy <christopher...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi Scott and all >>>>>>>> All I can say is I really like both TextEdit and Pages on my Macbook >>>>>>>> Pro 2012 model. Numbers for the mac I plan to get in the near future >>>>>>>> as well as Keynote which is Apple's answer to Microsoft PowerPoint. >>>>>>>> I've heard great things though about the latest Numbers and Keynote >>>>>>>> all of which sound promising. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regards Chris >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 02/04/2014 11:58, Scott Duck wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi Everyone, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> OK, so far, so good. It sounds like OSX is about as stable as IOS, >>>>>>>>> which is >>>>>>>>> what I had hoped. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> My next question regarding the Mac involves productivity. How well >>>>>>>>> does >>>>>>>>> VoiceOver do with word processing and spreadsheets? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> It is my understanding that Text Edit is very accessible. Is this >>>>>>>>> correct? >>>>>>>>> What about Pages? Spell check is very cumbersome on IOS if you are >>>>>>>>> working >>>>>>>>> with a large document. I assume that spell check is better on the >>>>>>>>> Mac. Is >>>>>>>>> it? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I am also very interested in Numbers. I do a lot of work with >>>>>>>>> spreadsheets. >>>>>>>>> Numbers for IOS is better than it used to be but, in terms of using >>>>>>>>> it with >>>>>>>>> VoiceOver, it's still rather cumbersome and not all that great if you >>>>>>>>> have >>>>>>>>> much work to do. 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