The author can tag the document so that things read more correctly -- you can do this in Quark Express or other authoring programs, so maybe you could convince them to properly tag the document and it would read better. I don't know much more than that, hope it helps you.
shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually have it set for document recommended. I have tried the other two > options as well the print stream and left to right top to bottom and it is > still no better. > I guess it is just ugly. > What is TAG in a PDF? > > I looked at the properties and the file says tag; NO > Is that my problem? > If so How does a document get Tagged? Is it the report writer that does the > tagging? > At this point I am not sure what is producing the PDF the DOPDF printer or > the report writer. > There is a few options when it comes to printing out of my accounting program > print, display, email, clip board > If I use the email it is labeled as a PDF. If I send it to the display the > mouse will work there but I can't search the entire document for words I > have to mouse search every page to find what I am looking for. And going to > the display is not like printing. It is lost once not displayed. So there is > no record of it. I need to keep these reports and the only way they seam to > come out of there is in a PDF. Which is the problem in reading later. > If I use the clip board it shows up in a little window that I don't know how > to work. there is no paste option. cut and copy are the only two such things. > I can also from there send email but it shows again as a PDF attachment. and > the delete. > I am not at all sure what good it is on that clip board. > > I have exported the PDF to text in adobe but it is just as ugly there. > I wondered what that create adobe online was all about. I thought that I > might be able to do something with formatting there but it just opened a > window called Adobe air and we can't read that window either. I have no idea > what it is asking of me. I think I have to click on something in that window > to get any farther but I have no idea what the questions are asking so I am > not going to agree or say yes unless I know what it wants. Since I can't read > it I just closed out of that window. > > It is just really too bad that the mouse can't read a PDF. If it could It > would be too great. > Thanks for the thoughts, > > I appreciate all the comments. > Shannon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alan Siman > To: shannon > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:11 PM > Subject: Re: PDF documents and the mouse > > > Just curious to know how you have your accessibility settings done in adobe? > > I had to change them to make readings columns easier. I will check nine > when you let me know what you are using. > > On 9/7/2010 12:33 PM, shannon wrote: > Yes, my adobe is set for accessibility but it still is not easy to > interpret the information. > They are reports that are in columns but they don't come through as real > tables like we would like. it is all jumbled up. > one line of the report reads across as period, gross, fica, med, fed, > state, dues, int fee, > and the next line has the amounts for those titles and it reads > year, 6789.55, 228.0,178.03,28.00, 130.00, 28.00, > > it is really difficult to tell which amount goes with what title with out > remembering that the fourth title is the forth entry in the second line. > It just does not read well. > now If I could find the gross with the mouse and then move directly down > from that word to that location on the second line and then read that amount > it would be so much easier. > > Why does the mouse not work with a PDF? or why can't the brows curser be > made to work like the mouse curser and move directly down into the next line? > > These reports just are not set up verry well. I don't have the first clue > as how or what can be done to read these better. > Shannon > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pastor Gil Pries" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:08 PM > Subject: Re: PDF documents and the mouse > > > > Is your adobe reader set to the accessibility settings? > If it is, you won't need the mouse pad. > > > Pastor Gil > > On 9/7/2010 9:57 AM, shannon wrote: > > Good afternoon, > I have to deal with more and more PDF docs. While the brows mode is > very > useful in finding info written in the documents with the find > feature. I > have a problem. > These documents I have to deal with are not very well laid out. Why > can > the mouse not be used in adobe? I could do much better interpreting > of > my particular docs if I could use the mouse to move directly up and > down > once the text was found if the mouse could follow the brows curser. > As it is the mouse only reads the top and bottom of the adobe window > and > not the doc itself. > Am I just missing something? > Thanks for any suggestions > Shannon > > 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. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. 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