Why VoiceOver reads some PDFs strangely was Re: Skim Accessibility

2012-11-09 Thread JAMES AUSTIN
Hello Dónal et al, On 9 Nov 2012, at 12:46, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: It seems to apply weird hyphenation patterns and cause stilted or interrupted speech. I may be wrong here, so please feel free to correct me, but I think that this problem stems in part, from the use of ligatures. If I rem

Re: Why VoiceOver reads some PDFs strangely was Re: Skim Accessibility

2012-11-09 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi James, Super response. You're absolutely correct in that sometimes (and LaTeX) is a classic example) odd glyphs are used. For example, "fi" in PDF produced by LaTeX can cause problems. Definitely interested in how it can be avoided, and you're more than welcome to respond offlist, however

Re: Why VoiceOver reads some PDFs strangely was Re: Skim Accessibility

2012-11-12 Thread Travis Siegel
I've not tried it on anything above snowleopard, and not all since preview added the continuous reading mode, but the softcon pages has an application that will let you read pdf files. It's called softcon pdf viewer, and I stopped doing anything with it after preview got the continuous rea

Re: Why VoiceOver reads some PDFs strangely was Re: Skim Accessibility

2012-11-13 Thread Fred Smith
I'm finding that Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 works quite well with PDFs . With VoiceOver, it will read continuously and without cutting off letters as Preview does (and Skim and Softcon, in my experience). ADE allows you to pause/restart, move up and down a page at a time, adjust the reading spee