Hi Jacob,
Very useful work-around using hotspot. So this should also work for
protected PDF files, assuming they haven't been closed?
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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.
