OK thanks a lot now the sight you directed me to is a wealth of info, I now
feel that with a bit of practice i can now go away and acomplish some tasks
using my Mac.
thanks again.
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[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 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: PDF DOCUMENTS
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
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