If I understand correctly, you appear to be skipping the step of unzipping the file after saving it. If that is the case, you should find the files work properly once properly unzipped.
I find constantly going back-and-forth between documents and possibly copying and pasting passages wears down my system, so I'm not surprised that yours eventually begs for mercy. It's possible that unloading and reloading JAWS will help. Otherwise, I find I reboot at least once a day because I, too, do a lot of work on my files. I'm afraid I can't offer any tips on using OpenBook. I'm sure someone else will chime in. With OmniPage, the process couldn't be simpler. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre Jarreau via Jfw Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 4:46 PM To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Subject: RE: Word stops fully responding. Adrien, Sorry wasn't clear on the PDF. Three 40 page PDF's were in a zip file. The zip file was attached to an email. I could access the PDFs by opening the zip file while still attached to the email. At this point I could arrow to any of the PDFs and hit enter to open it. However once the zip file above was open I saved the PDFs to my hard drive. I closed the zip file and closed the email the PDFs came in. I then went to the folder the PDFs were stored in on my hard drive and clicked on them one by one. Nothing happened. None of the PDFs would open or respond to the enter key in any way. I then reopened the email, zip file, and clicked on the PDFs as needed. They all opened and worked fairly well. On and off I have been using these PDFs. A PDF session would typically be four to six hours. Reading the PDFs and alt-tabbing to Word to make commentary. A lot of switching back and forth happened before Word would stop responding to arrow keys. Starting yesterday and today I noticed the repeated lines while in the middle of using say_all in the PDFs. Perhaps the zip file is not opening properly. I'm not sure. I hope there is some kind of fix. I will try your suggestions. Will try maximizing PDF window. I've haven't used OpenBook to convert PDFs, a few instructions would be helpful. Yes, the Word doc is saved upon every commentary addition. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt via Jfw Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:12 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: RE: Word stops fully responding. Andre, I'm puzzled by what you're doing here and why you're encountering certain problems, such as your inability to open a saved PDF file from the hard disc. I'll give you some thoughts in case they're at all helpful, but may be you could post again with more detail about the task you're performing in case anyone can give you more ideas. First, make sure you've maximized the window of each document. Thus, before reading the PDF file with "say all," press alt-spacebar followed by x to maximize the window. Second, all PDF files are different and differently accessible, depending on how well they are tagged, etc. I automatically convert PDF files with my OCR program, OmniPage 18. You might have OpenBook or some other device that performs this function. Third, did you save the Word document before working with it? -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre Jarreau via Jfw Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Word stops fully responding. Hi all. I am working to and from Word and a PDF. Just reading the PDF and making commentary in Word. Word works well for some time. Then stops responding to the arrow keys. Just closing Word and reopening it does not solve anything. However shutting down and rebooting the computer does work. But only for a time. The PDF is opened from an email attachment. It would save to disc, but, wouldn't open from the hard drive. The only way to open the PDF is fron the email attachment. Also when using say_all in the PDF. It would sometimes repeat several lines in the middle of reading a section before continuing. Any ideas? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/201405 22/ee94ee7c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
