Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Deb Lewis
You can edit them in Windows using Acrobat Pro (not the reader) but it’s not very accessible. We often do this in my office to increase accessibility. You don’t want to convert and then reconvert. You edit it on the fly with tagging and reordering. On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Chris Apple boy

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
hi Chris If I understand what you're asking, I have PDFpen PRO that I have been using which for me works fine. Some people had some trouble, but it works on my computer pretty well. I have a 2011 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of memory, just in case that matters. Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 4,

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Apple boy
Does this apply on the mac as well? Not talking about image Pdfs because as we all know these are not accessible unless sent to some Ocr package. I'm talking about editing Pdfs in general. I've not found one screen reader compatible program for Windows at least for the editing portion. Sure I c

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Teresa Cochran
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

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Blouch
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 yo

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Deb Lewis
I think it depends entirely on how you use the applications. My office is all Ms Office. We've found that pages documents don't really export well to word and even Word for Mac, which is not accessible, doesn't export well to word for windows. I think there are some better word processing packa

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread alberto
Yep I second that as well. On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Matt Dierckens 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 > > > >

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread alberto
Nope for that you will need different software. On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:23 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 wrote: > >> Well I see you'r

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Josh Gregory
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 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 d

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Matt Dierckens
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 wrote: > Weird, th

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Josh Gregory
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 wrote: > > Textedit will support RTF and so will pages. With pages you just can't write > in RTF. > > Matt Dierck

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Matt Dierckens
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 wrote: > The one thing I don't like about it is that it does

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Josh Gregory
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,

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Devin Prater
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 wrote: > Hi Scott and all > All I can say is I really like both TextEdit and Pages on my Ma

Re: Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Chris Apple boy
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

Productivity Software on the Mac

2014-04-02 Thread Scott Duck
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 accessib