Hi Anna, Downloads, well the one I am using by Hian Zin Jong doesn't allow you to search for text in a word document or a HTML document. It does allow you to search for text in a PDF, but once you choose the text you want to jump too, the PDF isn't accessible to VoiceOver, so as a PDF reader its useless.
I use it for reading word documents and locally stored HTML pages and documents. Its also a handy app to download podcast episodes etc that you find while surfing the web or on twitter when out and about and you don't want to listen to them at the time. Hope this helps, Brett -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2012 5:43 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages Hi Brett, Does the Downloads app keep your place in text files too, or just Word and HTML? I saw that it can do text searches of PDF files; can it do text search in other files formats as well? Thanks, Anna On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:08 AM, Brett <brettst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Two ways to read without having to scroll pages in braille are: > one Copy a word document to an app such as downloads. This will let you read Word documents without having to scroll pages. > > 2. For greater navigation control, add Word heading styles in your document to mark up the sections you want to quickly jump to. To mark a heading in a word document on your computer, select the text you want as a heading, then press Control plus Alt plus 1 (for a heading level 1), Control plus Alt plus 2 (for a heading level 2) and Control plus Alt plus 3, (for a heading level 3). > > Then save this file with a HTM extension using the save as dialog in word. Once the file is saved, again copy it to the Downloads app on your phone. When you open it, it will open as a HTML (wep page document), here you can set the rotor to headings and them jump quickly to the sections you previously marked up. This sounds harder than it is, but it really doesn't take much time and its handy for meetings when I need to quickly skip around a file. > > Downloads will also remember your place in a word or HTML document , when you click the Back button to close the document. This doesn't occur when using notes, although I do use notes for taking my shorthand notes in meetings etc. > > > Hope this helps, > Brett. > > > > Sent from Brett's iPhone > > On 29/10/2012, at 2:35 PM, Cheryl Ann Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Well, after exploring my question this afternoon, i've decided to use the Notes app next week. Everything loaded in there reads straight through without the need to scroll pages and either the issue with vo doing strange things when a note gets too long doesn't happen when speech is turned off or my file isn't long enough to cause a problem. >> >> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote: >> >>> >>> Today I took my iPhone and braille display to try to sing with everybody and follow along in the Scripture passages at church. I had typed everything onto my computer and sent it to Pages on my iPhone. It worked reasonably well. The only problem I had was that sometimes I would change pages and either I would have blank display for a while or the right page didn't come up. I am not using sppeech for this, just my iPhone and Refreshabraille 18. Is there an app I can use or a way that I can use pages so that I'm not having to change pages. Usually it seems that about 3 of my pages show up on the screen or at least can be panned on my display. Then I have to scroll using 3456chord and 1456-chord. If another page doesn't come up pretty quickly, I'm left behind with only an 18-cell braille disply. Is there an app that will let me just keep panning from one end of a file to the other? I did like that I could try to go to different pages in case something happened out of sequence but I don't like being stuck trying to get the display to show the next page. I need to be able to just keep panning from beginning to end of the file without having to do a scroll command. Would Notes or Plaintext work for this; I know there have been issues using Notes for longer files but would that matter as much since I'm muting speech? If I can get this perfected it will save me from having to carry around a backpack with a song notebook and a couple of Bible volumes. >>> >>> Thanks for any suggestions. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> and the meditation of my heart >> be acceptable to You, >> Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. >> (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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