my experience is that it is a matter of laziness. It's simply easier to scan something and send it out as an Email attachment, rather than taking the extra step of converting it to another format. Folks here at work do it all the time.
Andy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Stansifer Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Adobe saying empty document Mike, Actually there is text in that document it is just formatted in such a way that Jaws can't recognize it. I have heard of two work around. Print the document and scan it into something jaws can read either a text document or a word document. The second work around is grab somebody with eyeballs and get them to read it to you. I am not sure if this is a matter of extra security or simply sloppy authoring. I do know it is a real pain. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike & Barbara Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 1:06 PM To: jaws-users-list Subject: [JAWS-Users] Adobe saying empty document Hi All, I am running XP & Office Home 2002, Jaws 10 latest, & Adobe 9.1. When I tried to open a PDF file today and in the recent past, I get a message saying "Alert, empty document". Can anyone tell me what is wrong and what I will have to do to fix it? All help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much, take care. Mike 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/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 258216945) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=258216945&m=acc8 1dba01c6&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=258216945&m=acc8 1dba01c6&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=258216945&m=acc8 1dba01c6&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/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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]
