another option would be to experiment with the reading settings that JAWS
uses in PDF files that are usually displayed when a PDF file is opened
unless you have chosen to not have these shown. Sometimes changing these
settings will impact the method of how JAWS reads this information. I would
suspect that this applies to other screen readers although I have never used
them.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan, William S NWK" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Reading a pdf document with more than 1 column
Greg: If I understand, you basically want one column of text, is that
right?
So, one way you might get this to work would be to use a scanning program
like Openbook to do OCR on your .pdf document. You would:
open your .pdf document.
Do a control-P to print
select your scanner's import printer and hit enter.
If your scanning program is set to recognize columns, you should get what
you're looking for.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg
Washington
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Reading a pdf document with more than 1 column
Hello everyone,
I have a pdf document that at various points in it has two columns. When
reading it with Jaws 12.0.1158 in Acrobat Reader 9.4.4 I cannot figure out
how to read each column separately. Right now Jaws reads continuously
through each line, treating the two columns as one line of text when the
two
columns appear together. How can I configure Jaws to read each column
separately when they appear on the page next to each other.
Thanks for any help in this matter.
Greg Washington
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