Hi Keith, I'm going to point you to Tim Kilburn's instructions on using Preview at:
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/preview.html Although this is old, it's a good overview. Some things may be different if you're using Leopard (I'm not), since I think they replaced the "drawer " that is a separate side-panel (that can be opened or closed) that can hold a Table of Contents outline with a sidebar that stays permanently visible. If your line of text has been cut short, is this because you're at the bottom of a page? If so, go on to the next page. The only time I hear text cut short in the middle is when there are multi-column documents. Be aware that there are some Adobe PDF documents that can't be properly read in anything but their software. This shouldn't be the case for your computer manual! (which also shouldn't have multiple columns). A couple of other useful things to know: you probably won't need to set up or change Preview preferences, but I think by default Preview will remember the last page you viewed. If you close the document, and then start up again, you should be where you left off. Also, if you've been reading more than one document in Preview, you can use the "Open Recent"option under the File menu of Preview's menubar to select and open that document. Navigate to this option with VO-keys+m to get to the menu bar (or use Josh's tip of Control-F5 which only works in Leopaard) and tab or right-arrow over to "File", arrow down to "Open Recent" submenu then right arrow to get a list of recently viewed documets, Arrow down to select any of these you want to view and carriage return. A new Preview window will open up for that document. This is very useful if you have to consult more than one document at a time! You can either read the other document, and close it when you're done, or use command+accent (that's the command key plus the key to the left of the number "1" -- this is also the key just above the tab key and just below the escape key). Command+accent allows you to cycle between all the open windows for an app, so you can flip from one document to another until you decide to close one window with command+W. Using "Open Recent" also means you can find your last viewed document that way -- just start up Preview by opening it from the Applications directory (Command+Shift+A from Finder to go to applications, then type "Prev" to go to Preview and Command+O to open it) and find your last read document that way. You can also set bookmarks for any page with Command+D and you'll be prompted for a name for your bookmark (or you can accept the default name). To go to a bookmark, navigate to the bookmark menu in Preview's menu bar (VO-keys+m or the Tiger-only Control+F5; type "b" to go to bookmarks, arrow down and find your bookmark). Again, even if your document isn't open, selecting the bookmark will open the bookmarked document and take you to the bookmark location in that PDF file. Hope this helps! Esther On Nov 30, 2007, at 08:38AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >when i try reading part of the document it misses words as if the line of >text had been cut short. how do i prevent it doing this. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Cara Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by >theblind" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 5:57 PM >Subject: Re: PDF DOCUMENTS > > >> You can read the entire doc in Preview. If you tab around that window, >> I believe you'll have a way to advance pages. It's been a little while >> since I used it, but I needed to read the manual to actually learn about >> how the heck to use VO the day after I'd purchased my MacBook, so found >> the Mac Manual and went from there... >> >> Sorry I can't be of more help, but I'll give it a quick look in a bit and >> get back with you if no one else does and you haven't been able to figure >> it out.... <smile> >> >> Have a lovely day!... >> >> Smiles, >> >> Cara :) >> >> >> On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:35 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> OK have found a PDF document on my mac that i wish to read. now i can >>> get a preview of this gbut i need to read the entire document. how do i >>> go about this? >>> >>> thanks again >>> >>> You'll be pleased to know it's the user guide for my machine, so i might >>> not ask so many questions. >>> >>> Keith >> >> --- >> View my Online Portfolio at: >> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >> >> > > > >
