Re: Alternative to Preview for reading PDF documents

2018-07-06 Thread David Chittenden
You could try Prizmo. Prizmo will OCR the print or digital document, and place each section into its own grouping in the page view. Kind regards, David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +61 488 988 936 Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Jul 2018, at 03:48, 'Andrew Lamanche'

Re: question re attaching docs in high Sierra

2018-07-06 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Do you get a different result if you use Command-Shift-a while composing the mail message to attach the file instead of copy/paste? Copy/paste does as you describe in Microsoft Outlook for Mac as well, but attaching the file from within the mail composition editor gives the desired result. I

Re: Alternative to Preview for reading PDF documents

2018-07-06 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Yet another option: ABBY FineReader can convert PDF files to HTML or Microsoft Word format. On 7/6/18, 13:48, "'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries" wrote: No, Paul, sadly Voice Dream is not available for mac OS. Andrew > On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:05 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote:

Re: Alternative to Preview for reading PDF documents

2018-07-06 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
No, Paul, sadly Voice Dream is not available for mac OS. Andrew > On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:05 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > > Hello, > I have now tried a couple of alternative PDF readers for Mac OS: PDF Reader > Pro Free and Skim. They both do a better job of my Newsletter PDF than > Preview. Alas

Alternative to Preview for reading PDF documents

2018-07-06 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I have now tried a couple of alternative PDF readers for Mac OS: PDF Reader Pro Free and Skim. They both do a better job of my Newsletter PDF than Preview. Alas neither correctly displays my credit card statement PDF file. They both miss the last column in the statement table which

Re: My iPhone lost an hour

2018-07-06 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Les and all, Yes, that automatic setting was on and has been on. I decided to turn it off and just switch to Cupertino, which is the default time, since that’s where Apple is and that’s where I am. Well I’m not in Cupertino, but I’m in their times out. And it said itself back. Before doing

question re attaching docs in high Sierra

2018-07-06 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, I just had to send an email with two attachments. I noticed that when I cut and pasted the files into my email, all VO said was image. Is there any way to fix this so it reads the file name instead? TIA, Donna -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: My iPhone lost an hour

2018-07-06 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Mary, Hope you are well. I’m not sure why your phone lost time, but you can go into settings, general and then date and time. There’s a setting for setting your time automatically. If there is on, you might want to chocolate off and then back on and restart your phone and see if it fixes

My iPhone lost an hour

2018-07-06 Thread Mary Otten
My iPhone is telling me that it is an hour earlier than it actually is. It’s like something told the iPhone to go back to standard time. I rebooted. No change. I checked my iPad mini to see if perhaps there was something strange with an Apple server, but it has the correct time. Why on earth

Re: OMG, I can't believe I fixed it!

2018-07-06 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Jonathan, I noticed there is a Spanish ISO keyboard in addition to Spanish without ISO. So these keyboards essentially remap the physical keyboard? It appears that is what Donna experienced. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Science is not only compatible with

Re: First steps into using iPhone for orientation

2018-07-06 Thread Jonathan Cohn
This is not just a problem with blind individuals. I regularly have Lyft riders drive past my house and turn left on the street beyond my house because their navigation is confused in dividing the street up. I even got a lower cost then predicted because Lyft claimed I got out before the ride

Re: About Speech Central for Mac

2018-07-06 Thread Leo Bado
thank you Chuck, very helpful indeed. Leo Bado El 05/07/2018 a las 13:41, CHUCK REICHEL escribió: Hi guys, Heres how to change the rate for send to itunes as a spoken track, on the mac; To change the reading rate you need to insert an embedded command specifying the rate at the beginning

Re: OMG, I can't believe I fixed it!

2018-07-06 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Oh! I've often wondered why there wasn't an international keyboard for the Mac. Guess I should have looked a little harder. Thanks, Jonathan! Cheers, Donna > On Jul 6, 2018, at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > Donna, > > First of all, I believe you said your keyboard selection was ISO

Re: OMG, I can't believe I fixed it!

2018-07-06 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Donna, First of all, I believe you said your keyboard selection was ISO which is a very specialized keyboard listed under “other languages”. I am not quite sure how it works. For those that have learned touch typing in the US but need to input a bit of accented characters there is besides the

Re: Fwd: HIMS Introduces the All-New QBraille XL

2018-07-06 Thread Erik Burggraaf
This looks fantastic! I wonder what their trade-in offer will be for a braille Edge. Best, Erik On July 5, 2018 5:28:07 PM "'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries" wrote: Hi all, I just received this from HIMS. I don't know anything beyond what is contained in this message, but thought I

Re: First steps into using iPhone for orientation

2018-07-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sandi, This is the second AfterShokz headset I’ve had but I don’t think this particular model is still being made. However, there seem to be a couple of wired versions still available with mic of course. I find them really good for getting around Paris which is pretty noisy. My hearing

Re: OMG, I can't believe I fixed it!

2018-07-06 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
That's good to know, Anne. I can well believe that I may have changed something accidentally. Someday I may try it again. Cheers, Donna > On Jul 6, 2018, at 12:36 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > I’m still using Sierra, but for years now I’ve had two keyboards configured > on my Mac since

Re: First steps into using iPhone for orientation

2018-07-06 Thread David Chittenden
Hello, There are no GPS apps which will provide the degree of accuracy you are hoping for. With a good GPS signal, the apps will get you to within a few shops of where you wish to go. However, many factors, including how big are the buildings around you, how clear is your view of the sky where

Re: First steps into using iPhone for orientation

2018-07-06 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
Anne , what model exactly do you have , ive been wanting to give the aftershocks a go. but didnt want the bluetooth version. how well does the hedset work, how clear is the sound when its send through your bones? On 7/5/18, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > The accuracy of any GPS app