I agree with your Hmmm. I played with things some more by opening a PDF document with QuickLook and did find it less than useful. I'm not sure why you're getting a menu when using your arrow keys. For me, if I simply use arrow keys without the VO keys, then it changes pages within the PDF document. If I interact with the text area, then I can either use VO-keys with the arrow keys, just the arrow keys or if I turn on QuickNav, it works just fine as well. There is no lag and no hesitation. It is no different than reading that same page from within TextEdit.
My MBP has 8 GB of RAM and is a 2.4 GHz Quad Core I7 from late 2011. It is quick but by no means the top of the line model nowadays. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-02-20, at 10:55 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm... I'm using Mountain Lion, and all that happens when I arrow in the text > is the share menu opens. I can vo-arrow, but that's no better than Quicklook. > I did hit cmd-2 to enter single page mode as you suggested, and I did > interact with the text. > On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:39 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I navigate to the pdf wherever it is located on my computer, then open it. >> My default app for PDFs is Preview so it opens Preview. I then press cmd-2 >> if I've not already done so in an earlier read of the PDF which puts it into >> Single-page mode. I can then navigate with VO-right arrow to the text area >> and either let it read the entire page or Interact with the text area then >> read word by word, line by line or whatever VO method I use in any other >> app. I do not use QuickNav at all in this process. QuickLook is not >> Preview, they are separate entities. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-02-20, at 10:28 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> How do you read line by line? I can enable quick nav and rotor to lines, >>> but that is not perfect and can be laggy. Up and down arrows just move to >>> the previous or next item and open it in quicklook, which I understand >>> preview to be. Am I missing an app others are using? >>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:10 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Preview usually works just great for me, line by line or whatever method I >>>> choose. I do, however, find it much easier to use in Single-page mode >>>> which you can enter by pressing cmd-2 in ML. I use it for multi-page >>>> curriculum guides, various manuals and much, much more. >>>> >>>> Later... >>>> >>>> Tim Kilburn >>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>>> >>>> On 2013-02-20, at 12:35 AM, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Would you really say Preview works? Please interact with the text area >>>>> and try to navigate or read line by line. Preview for me is just a work >>>>> around at the moment and we should let Apple know this. >>>>> Jürgen >>>>> Am 20.02.2013 um 03:55 schrieb Nektarios Mallas <nmal...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi there. >>>>>> I am sure you already know this, but why don't you just use preview to >>>>>> read pdf files? >>>>>> It is much easier and it works. >>>>>> >>>>>> Nektarios. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:50 AM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I've just downloaded a program I found out when doing a google search >>>>>>> called Skim, that's supposed to read pdf files, however when I try to >>>>>>> open one, it just says "pluggin process," and sits there like I never >>>>>>> did anything extra. >>>>>>> Do I need to have the aplication running in the background, or should >>>>>>> it launch automaticly? 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