Had lots of problems with .pdf documents from the library at Monash. Found out after some time and a great deal of obscene language on my part (under my breath) that that what they did was just to scan (and not OCR) the various documents. The only way I found to get round this was to use Omnipage 15 (not 16) to handle and OCR the naughty documents and convert to MS Word. Fortunately in the process of scanning the destination Word doc maintained the original format (almost). But it was only after a chance remark by one of the staff on thelibrary enquiry desk that alerted me to this situation. Cheers Andrea ----- Original Message ----- From: Downie, Andrew To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 2:08 PM Subject: RE: Handling PDF Documents
A large part of the problem is that all PDFs are not born equal. If you get a message upon loading the file that it is unstructured, good accessibility is problematical. I can't recall a situation where a link throws me back to the top of the document but, when people don't follow standards, anything is possible. It may help to limit reading to one page at a time. To do that, press ctrl-k in Adobe Reader and arrow to Reading. If you tell it there that a large document consists of one page, documents will be loaded one at a time. Pressing ctrl-pgdn will then take you to the next page. While I quite like that arrangement, some will find it tedious. But you can adjust settings to suit individual situations. Andrew From: Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blue Sent: Friday, 31 October 2008 01:06 To: [email protected] Subject: Handling PDF Documents Hi, Is there a way to stop a PDF document from refreshing every time you run across a link in it? I'm currently reading a document and every time I run across a link of a URL I'm put back at the beginning of the document. Is there something I can change either in Window eyes 7.01 or Adobe so this doesn't happen any more? Blue New Email Address Oblue at wi.rr.com If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the originalsender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sendingyour message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the searchform at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. ********************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. ********************************************************************** If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
