Good Morning, I am at my wit's end with PDF files, so I thought I'd inquire for help here. If there's a better forum for this, or we should be discussing it off list, I'd be happy to do that.
I've used JAWS to read basic PDF files, ones with practically no formatting. For instance, a novel in PDF format tends to read pretty well. But I purchase a lot of PDF documents from www.drivethrurpg.com, and most of them aren't read very well by JAWS. I've seen many of the following errors. No spaces between words On two-column pages, the columns being smashed together and read as one nonsensical block of text With tables, the left hand column being presented first, and then the right hand column, not side by side, but all the left hand column entries first, and then the right. Whole sections of books that JAWS cannot see at all, even though I am assured there is text there One pair of files where the author used lots of notes in the text and JAWS had no idea where to put them, so it just reads them mixed up with the rest of the text. Because of all of these difficulties, I've concluded that I may need new strategies for dealing with PDF files. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? What are the optimal settings to use when opening a PDF file? Is there anything I can do to improve the conversion of PDF documents to text? I seem to recall that there's a place that we can Email PDF documents to, and it'll convert them. Is it any good? The problem with that approach is most of these documents are larger than 10 MB, which I believe exceeds the largest Email attachment I can send. I welcome all suggestions and insights. Failing that, I will contact the publishers and ask if I can get copies of the documents I've purchased in an alternate electronic format. It's just very frustrating to know that the information is there and available, but still inaccessible to me. Before I contact the publishers, though, I want to make certain that I'm not doing anything wrong. Many thanks. Nancy I've tried saving files to text, and the For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
