You can also configure safari not to open files when downloaded. I think the heart of this issue though may be the drm on the files.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Bejarano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Voiceover, PDF documents on the web Hello, I don't know if I can be of help, as I use Tiger, but when I have trouble downloading pdf files, I use the following work-arounds: The first of these involves positioning the cursor over the download icon, turning off voiceover, and clicking on the icon with the mouse. After 30 seconds or so, I hit Command-S to save, turn on voiceover, move the cursor to the Save button, turn off voiceover, and click save with the mouse. I do these things because Safari freezes up if I try to download pdf files without first turning off voiceover. The second work-around is to allow safari to download the pdf file. After that, I bring up the print dialogue, click on preview to launch it, and save the pdf file from within preview. As I noted above, neither of these options may be useful or relevant to you if you don't use Tiger. Cordially, Rafael Bejarano The On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I've just subscribed to a professional journal on the Web. The > website gives me access to regular issues of a bulletin in PDF > format. I can find the link which is the title of the current > issue. I click on it with VO+spacebar and then I hit a problem. I > get a message from Safari that it cannot find an apropriate PDF > reader to open the page. I am presented with a dialogue from which > to choose a compatible reader but I cannot find it in the list > applications. In my case, I use Preview but I cannot see it in the > dialogue that Safari offers me. And yet, Preview is definitely > there in my list of Applications folder. Ideally, I don't really > want to open the file on the web, I ideally want to download it > into a folder on my computer. However, clicking on the title of the > bulletin does not give me an option to download the PDF file. On > the windows side, I can right click on the title in IE6 and choose > save target as... But in Safari, I don't know how to do it. Can > anyone give me some clues as to how to achieve my purpose? Why > doesn't safari recognise Preview as a legitimate PDF reader? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Simon > >
