I think you're correct on that but the details escape me at the moment, good point though. David Ferrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consciousness, that annoying time between naps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Margaret Thomas To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] reading PDF
In addition to older systems, wasn't there something about folks with older versions of JAWS not being able to upgrade to later versions of Adobe? Margaret "Lou" wrote: Hi, I tried to get that version but it will not let me down load anything but 6.00 because I am running m e. What can I do to get latest and greatest? Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Gallik To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] reading PDF I strongly urge everybody to make sure they are using the latest version of Adobe Reader (7.0.5 I believe). Probably the most convenient way to do this is to bring up Adobe Reader, go to the "Edit Menu" and select "Preferences." Then find the "Updates" item in the resulting tree list and select the options as you choose except that I recommend you select to update at start up item in that particular dialog box. The most recent version of Adobe Reader is light years ahead of the version that was current just last year. And even though you may have the most recent version of Adobe Reader, there may still be many documents that cause difficulties. Saving as text is one option, but I've had the experience in the past that doing this just may result in information out of place -- as if it were inserted into the document after an initial draft or something like that. Another problem is that a PDF document just may contain a photograph of a hardcopy document. In these cases Adobe Reader is pretty much useless to those of us that must rely on screen reading software. I happen to have Kurzweil 1000 so when I cannot read a PDF document that confuses content or I suspect to have been a photo-copy I opt to have it printed via the KESI Virtual Printer whereupon Kurzweil can then read the document to me. I don't know if Open Book has such a feature, but this does work quite well. HTH ---------------- Bill Gallik E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
