Dale, It is extremely frustrating when the brain trust at fs seems to have more interest in some kind of mindless auto forms mode or a gazillion different ways to rip and remake music tracks. After all, Ted Henter's original vision for "JAWS was "Job Access with Speech." With the professional version of JFW running near a grand per copy one would hope that the boys at FS would wake up and smell the demand.
TNX Larry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:23 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] "Alert document is empty" If you look at the document in Windows Explorer with View/Details selected and it has a byte count of significantly more than 0 then you have the file in all probability. It is most likely a graphic, that is, a picture of text. What you are observing is that there is no text for NotePad or Adobe Reader to display. If you have Kurzweil or OpenBook or some other OCR programme you might be able to get them to open the document and scan it to recognize text. This is not usually all that satisfactory partly because the image may not be so clear or well scanned and the software can't discriminate the text in it all that well either. Sometimes you can print the file to a good printer then scan that into a programme like K1000 or OpenBook and get reasonable intelligence that way. You probably have the full document, just not in a form you can use. Frustrating isn't it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Stansifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:01 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] "Alert document is empty" > Hi folks, > > I recently received a PDF document and when I attempted to open it I > received the following message: "Alert document is empty." Undaunted > by Jaws inability to recognize certain PDF formatting I proceeded > to open it in note pad as a TXT file and received a blank screen with Jaws > simply sounding top and bottom alert. > Would it be safe to assume that because I receive no information using > either file format that the document is in fact empty and I need to have > the > document resent? > > TNX > > Larry > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To post to this group, send email to > jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 219561584) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=219561584&m=b4f1997a773c&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=219561584&m=b4f1997a773c&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=219561584&m=b4f1997a773c&c=f REMEMBER: Never give out your account information, password, or other personal information over e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
