Hi David
It's not technically a Voiceover bug. However, it is an inconvenience
and something that should be fixed, this is one of the very few
regressions VO made from Tiger to Leopard, or perhaps it's a
regression in Preview itself. It has nothing to do with the file being
read only in this case. The crux of the problem is that, in Leopard,
VO does not care what's on the screen in preview, but interacts with
the text area directly. In tiger this was not the case, and you got
the current page only, as that is what is displayed on the screen.
This is most likely due to a redesign of Preview's text area into a
single, scrolling control rather than having the text area only load
one page at a time. Now, since VO doesn't know where you are on the
screen in Preview, it won't take you back to the correct area and will
most often place you at the top, though this doesn't always happen.
I've found a temporary solution in the form of VO's hotspot feature.
This doesn't seem to be very well known, but it is certainly handy.
Before you command-tab away from preview, press vo+shift+any number
(0-9). There are ten hotspots. Voiceover will set the hotspot to that
exact location in the current control you're interacting with. When
you switch back to preview, press VO+the number of the hotspot you
saved, and you'll be zipped right back to it. For the curious, this
replaces the text area bookmark feature VO had in Tiger, and it can be
used in any control or window. Note: these hotspots are temporary. If
you restart VO they will be lost, you can't currently save them.
On Dec 8, 2008, at 11:41, David Poehlman wrote:
this is not a bug. there is no way for read only files to resume.
