Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

I don't know. It is intended for reading science journal pdf pages which often have info in table format. The ability to grab the text and put it elsewhere is a bonus feature. It's free, get it and try it on a pdf known to have the formats of interest to you. On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Mary Ott

RE: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

: Thursday, 5 October 2017 9:12 AM To: mac mailing list Subject: Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac? Hi all: Is there an app to open the PDF files on mac? when i open any pdf, i get the preview . is this an app? On Oct 4, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Mary Otten mailto:motte...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

If you don't want to make it and text file, thereby losing formatting I assume, does this app deal with tables and voiceover, such that you can do rows and columns in a table mode? If not, bummer. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:44 PM, -dan d. wrote: > > > In place of previ

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

In place of preview I use skim which is a free open source pdf reading app. It is being actively developed and updated. It is smaller in size and faster and does a better pdf presentation in my experience then does preview. Once the pdf file is loaded into it; one can use the cmd-a and cmd-

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi, Anders, Yes, Robobraille was definitely the site whose name I was trying to recall. The site has been around for seven or eight years now, and at least back in 2010, it was very good. Thanks so much for that piece of information! Take care, Mike > On 4 Oct 2017, at 21:13, Anders Holmber

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello Anne, No, I didn’t try that, but I will. Thank you very much, Mike > On 4 Oct 2017, at 19:38, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Mike, > > Have you tried just selecting all the text in the PDF document with Cmd-a and > pasting it into a TextEdit document? You can do this with just two s

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi, Preview is the stock app on a Mac for reading pdf documents. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 4, 2017, at 14:11, Ramy Moustafa wrote: Hi all: Is there an app to open the PDF files on mac? when i open any pdf, i get the preview . is this an app? > On Oct 4, 2017, at 9

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi all: Is there an app to open the PDF files on mac? when i open any pdf, i get the preview . is this an app? > On Oct 4, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > If a PDF file has tables, is that formatting retain in Robo braille if you > convert to say RTF? Or word? > Mary > > > Sent from

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

If a PDF file has tables, is that formatting retain in Robo braille if you convert to say RTF? Or word? Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 4, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Christine Grassman > wrote: > > Quite often, if one goes into the file menu, there is a “save as other” > option. This allows you t

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi! Robobraille.org is quite self-instructive. I think you can send a mail also attaching the pdf to conv...@robobraille.org and in the subject-line type rtf or whatever format you want it converted to. /A > 4 okt. 2017 kl. 18:28 skrev Michael Busboom : > > Hello, Mary, > > No, I haven’t upgrad

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello Mike, Have you tried just selecting all the text in the PDF document with Cmd-a and pasting it into a TextEdit document? You can do this with just two shortcuts if you’ve activated the service New TextEdit window containing selection. Cheers, Anne > On 4 Oct 2017, at 18:28, Michael Bu

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Quite often, if one goes into the file menu, there is a “save as other” option. This allows you to save the pdf as a Word file, rtf file, plain text, etc. If the particular file does not have this option, you can send the file as an attachment to conv...@robobraille.org

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello, There is a way of converting a .pdf file to a text file via an Apple Script. When you have a .pdf file you simply VO+Shift+M and select convert to text and the text file appears where you selected it to be placed when setting up the script. I can’t find the details immediately and I have

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello, Mary, No, I haven’t upgraded to High Siera yet. One reason I need PDFs in a different format is that I want to read them on braille displays that don’t interface all that well with the Mac. There used to be web-based services that would convert your PDFs to RTF or TXT files and e-mail t

Re: Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hi Mike, I can't answer your question about the services, although I will be following this thread with interest. I'm curious if you have upgraded to high Sierra and still find a PDF reading to be as bad as ever. Or have you found improvement? Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 4, 2017, at 8:54

Circumventing reading PDFs on the Mac?

Hello everyone, Although I can read many PDFs on the Mac, I find the process sometimes „clunky.“ I know that there are services out there that allow you to send them a PDF file and they will email an RTF version back to you. My problem is that I haven’t used any of these services in years, and