Gerald, In your step 4, isn't "protected mode" a way of protecting against viruses, etc.? If so, we should at least warn people why that mode is there. For myself, I haven't unchecked it, and I've had no difficulty opening PDF files once the other accessibility settings are in place.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] adobe reader DC Okay, try these steps to get Acrobat Reader to work: 1. Launch the Edit menu and scroll all the way down to the Accessibility submenu and select the Set-Up Assistant dialog. 2. The Set-Up Assistant consists of 5 screens. On screen 5 of 5, the last screen, uncheck the box labeled "open PDF documents in the web browser", which may be checked by default. 3. Relaunch the Edit menu and this time scroll all the way down to the Preferences dialog. 4. On the list of options, scroll down to "Security Enhanced". This is the item right after "Security". Tab once to the box labeled "Enable Protected Mode at Start-UP" and uncheck it. 5. Close Acrobat Reader, and now when you encounter a PDF document, JAWS should be able to handle it. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: david Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] adobe reader DC hello there; is there not some settings that need to be changed in the preferences menu? -----Original Message----- From: Mario Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] adobe reader DC David, go to the edit menu with an alt+e, then up arrow to accessibility sub menu, right arrow to open it and down arrow to setup assistant, and press enter. On 3/27/2016 10:09 AM, david wrote: > good morning all; > one of my client's contacted me regarding adobe DC. > here's his question, > > > I'm having an issue with reading PDF's using Adobe. I'm working on a > research assignment for school and when I open each PDF, Jaws does not > read the text. When I try to use the OCR to read the document, it does > not. > Before opening the PDF, the following message appears on the website > used to gather the PDF's: > This PDF document opens in a frame, to view the document outside of a > frame, please change your Adobe Reader settings. To do this, open Adobe > Reader, go to help menu and select accessibility setup assistant options > then select use recommend settings and skip setup. > However, I cannot seem to be able to find where any of these options are > in the help menu through Adobe. > > email me at: > > [email protected] > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
